[StarCluster] Starcluster and elastic load balancing

[Archie Russell]

Hi Rajat

My version doesn't have "bal",   does that mean it is not the most recent
version
from github?  (our  system administrator installed it and may have missed
that detail).

Is there a version string to look for?

$ starcluster bal mycluster -m 10 -n 2
StarCluster - (http://web.mit.edu/starcluster)
Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
Please submit bug reports to starcluster at mit.edu

Error: invalid command 'bal'


$ starcluster --version
StarCluster - (http://web.mit.edu/starcluster)
Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
Please submit bug reports to starcluster at mit.edu

0.91.2


-A


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Rajat Banerjee <rbanerj at fas.harvard.edu>wrote:

> Hi Archie,
> Yes, there is ELB built into the latest releases of StarCluster. I wrote
> it, so feel free to write me (+ the list) with any questions.
>
> The docs on
> http://web.mit.edu/stardev/cluster/docs/index.html
>
> haven't been updated in a while. There is a documentation page on
> starcluster in the code base, see
> /starcluster/StarCluster/docs/sphinx/load_balancer.rst
>
> That doc should have all of the information you need, and is readable in
> plain text.
>
> Typically, this is how I fire up the load balancer:
> starcluster bal <cluster_tag> -m <MAX_NODES you want> -n <MIN_NODES you
> want>
>
> It will poll the cluster every 60 seconds and make decisions. The decisions
> are described in load_balancer.rst. There is a visualizer which makes 6
> graphs with matplotlib to show you how many nodes are working, how many jobs
> are running, queued, avg load, etc, but the visualizer still needs a little
> bit of work.
>
> Hope that helps, and feel free to send back questions.
> Rajat Banerjee
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:29 PM, <starcluster-request at mit.edu> wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:40:00 -0800
>> Subject: [StarCluster] Starcluster and elastic load balancing
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Online it says Starcluster has Elastic Load Balancing built into the
>> latest code
>> version at Github.     How would I go about using this?     How does
>> it work,  e.g.
>> when does it fire up new nodes and when does it shut them down?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Archie
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