[StarCluster] Large cluster (125 nodes) launch failure

[Austin Godber]

Does it work at 20 and fail at 21?  I think Amazon still has a 20 AMIs 
limit, which you can request that they raise.  Have you done that?

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_many_instances_can_I_run_in_Amazon_EC2

Austin

On 03/15/2011 05:29 PM, Kyeong Soo (Joseph) Kim wrote:
> Hi Justin and All,
>
> This is to report a failure in launching a large cluster with 125
> nodes (c1.xlarge).
>
> I tried to launch the said cluster two times but starcluster hung (for
> more than hours) at the following steps:
>
> .....
>
>>>> Launching node121 (ami: ami-2857a641, type: c1.xlarge)
>>>> Launching node122 (ami: ami-2857a641, type: c1.xlarge)
>>>> Launching node123 (ami: ami-2857a641, type: c1.xlarge)
>>>> Launching node124 (ami: ami-2857a641, type: c1.xlarge)
>>>> Creating security group @sc-hnrlcluster...
> Reservation:r-7c264911
>>>> Waiting for cluster to come up... (updating every 30s)
>>>> Waiting for all nodes to be in a 'running' state...
> 125/125 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> 100%
>>>> Waiting for SSH to come up on all nodes...
> 125/125 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> 100%
>>>> The master node is ec2-75-101-230-197.compute-1.amazonaws.com
>>>> Setting up the cluster...
>>>> Attaching volume vol-467ecc2e to master node on /dev/sdz ...
>>>> Configuring hostnames...
>>>> Mounting EBS volume vol-467ecc2e on /home...
>>>> Creating cluster user: kks (uid: 1001, gid: 1001)
>>>> Configuring scratch space for user: kks
>>>> Configuring /etc/hosts on each node
>
> I have succeeded with the configuration up to 15 nodes so far.
>
> Any idea?
>
> With Regards,
> Joseph
> --
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