<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hello,<br><br></div>I'm trying to start a 2-node cluster in the us-west-2 region and the initialization does not go beyond the "waiting for instances to activate" stage. I can see that the instances are up and running through the EC2 web console (and I can login to them directly). When I'm using the default east region everything works well. <br>
<br></div><div>I'm using the latest startcluster version from Git. I first tried to use the latest stable version (0.93.3) but got errors regarding "Invalid security group description. Valid
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descriptions are limited to 255 characters..." (again, just when trying to use a region other than the default).<br></div><div><br>Below is the output of the start command:<br>izharw@izharw-VirtualBox:~/Desktop/EC2$ starcluster -r us-west-2 start test<br>
StarCluster - (<a href="http://star.mit.edu/cluster" target="_blank">http://star.mit.edu/cluster</a>) (v. 0.9999)<br>Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)<br>Please submit bug reports to <a href="mailto:starcluster@mit.edu" target="_blank">starcluster@mit.edu</a><br>
<br>>>> Using default cluster template: smallcluster<br>>>> Validating cluster template settings...<br>>>> Cluster template settings are valid<br>>>> Starting cluster...<br>>>> Launching a 2-node cluster...<br>
>>> Creating security group @sc-test...<br>Reservation:r-58cb656d<br>>>> Waiting for cluster to come up... (updating every 30s)<br>>>> Waiting for instances to activate...|^ <br><br></div>And these are the entries of my configuration file:<br>
[global]<br>DEFAULT_TEMPLATE=smallcluster<br>[aws info]<br>AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX <br>AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX <br>AWS_USER_ID = XXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br>AWS_REGION_NAME = us-west-2<br>AWS_REGION_HOST = <a href="http://ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com" target="_blank">ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com</a> <br>
[key oregon]<br>KEY_LOCATION=~/Desktop/EC2/oregon.rsa<br>[cluster smallcluster]<br>KEYNAME = oregon <br>CLUSTER_SIZE = 2<br>CLUSTER_USER = sgeadmin<br>CLUSTER_SHELL = bash<br>NODE_IMAGE_ID = ami-706afe40 <br>NODE_INSTANCE_TYPE = t1.micro<br>
MASTER_INSTANCE_TYPE = t1.micro <br>PERMISSIONS = ssh<br>[permission ssh]<br>PROTOCOL = TCP<br>FROM_PORT = 22 <br>TO_PORT = 22<br><br></div>Any suggestion of what am I doing wrong?<br><br>Thanks,<br></div>Izhar<br>
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