[StarCluster] Starcluster and elastic load balancing

[Rajat Banerjee]

Hello Joseph,
I really appreciate your words. I am pleased that the load balancer will be
put to good use.

I have written my masters thesis on this topic and it is very near
completion. The final copy is due within the next two weeks, after which I
will post a PDF to this list for everyone to view. Due to some onerous
requirements, the document is over 50 pages. I hope to create an abridged
version soon.

In the meantime, ELB is fully operational (just like the 2nd death star). I
hope to clean up the visualizer next week so others can use it. Justin has
already given me useful suggestions that I simply need to implement.

Here are some graphs that I've been toying with for the thesis experiment:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/224960/sc/index.html

Best,
Rajat

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Kyeong Soo (Joseph) Kim <
kyeongsoo.kim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Rajat,
>
> I am very interested in your work on the elastic load balancing; I do
> remember that you posted some graphs on early results in the past and that
> you were working on your MSc thesis.
>
> In fact, this new feature will be critical for my current research
> requiring about 3~400 independent simulation runs and I do highly appreciate
> your great contribution to the StarCluster.
>
> By the way, I wonder whether you have published your work in any
> conferences/journals yet.
>
> Regards,
> Joseph
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> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:31 PM, 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
>>
>>
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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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