<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Fred Rotbart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rotbart@softbart.com">rotbart@softbart.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Dan,<br>
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The image I meant was ami-7ea24a17 which is the Amazon generic Cluster Compute image.<br>
Rightscale have a beta image,ami-78947f11, which is also Cluster Compute compatible.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Ah -- well, I wasn't intending it to be a Cluster Compute image ... it was just meant for "regular" amazon images. Are you asking about building a centOS Cluster Compute image?<br>
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In fact, AFAIK currently these are the only two public images available for Cluster Compute.<br>
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Any thoughts?<br>
<br>
- Fred<div class="im"><br>
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On 3/09/10 23:57 , Dan Yamins wrote:<br>
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On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Fred Rotbart <<a href="mailto:rotbart@softbart.com" target="_blank">rotbart@softbart.com</a><br></div><div class="im">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:rotbart@softbart.com" target="_blank">rotbart@softbart.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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Hi Dan,<br>
<br></div><div class="im">
Thanks for the help.<br>
<br>
I had started building a lot of stuff from sources. However, the<br>
Python 2.6 I took from<br>
<a href="http://chrislea.com/2009/09/09/easy-python-2-6-django-on-centos-5/" target="_blank">http://chrislea.com/2009/09/09/easy-python-2-6-django-on-centos-5/</a>.<br>
Any advantage to building the Python from sources?<br>
<br>
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Well, three reasons:<br>
<br>
1) I needed a 64-bit install. Typically I've found that 64-bit<br>
pre-compiled binaries are less reliable than building 64-bit. This is<br>
the main reason I used a source as opposed to a pre-compiled binary (e.g<br></div>
from <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">python.org</a> <<a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">http://python.org</a>> itself).<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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2) As explained at the top of Chris Lea's post, overwriting the system<br>
python on centOS with python26 is really bad. I really really needed<br>
to make sure that it didn't screw things up and so I decided to install<br>
in /opt, where a completely standard install would work fine and be sure<br>
not to interfere. To make a package install work while completely not<br>
interfering with the other system installs, putting all the relevant<br>
byte-compiled dependencies in version-number-named places throughout the<br>
distros, requires alot of finicky work. I'm not comfortable enough with<br>
yum to feel like I totally understood how to evaluate whether any given<br>
person's repo was likely to be "right". This is the main reason I<br>
would use a non-yum-based install vs. a repo install.<br>
<br>
3) I wasn't aware of Chris Lea's work -- thank you so much for telling<br>
me of it If I had known of it, perhaps I would have used it (if there's<br>
a 64-bit version) -- but subject to the above provisos.<br>
<br>
<br>
BTW why did you use the Rightscale image rather than using the<br>
Amazon one?<br>
<br>
<br>
I've typically found Rightscale images to be more reliable than Amazon<br>
ones actually -- and more things I already need are on them. Which<br>
amazon image were you referring to?<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
- Fred<br>
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On 3/09/10 09:49 , Dan Yamins wrote:<br>
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Fred, sorry for the delay in reply.<br>
<br>
I've put the instructions up here at this google doc<br>
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J</a><br>
<<a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J</a>><br>
<<a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J</a><br>
<<a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J</a>>><br>
<br>
Let me know if you can't access this doc.<br>
<br>
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Fred Rotbart<br>
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Hi Dan,<br>
<br>
Did you happen to make a cookbook for making the CentOS<br>
StarCluster AMI?<br>
If so can you make it available?<br>
<br>
- Fred<br>
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