[StarCluster] Large cluster (125 nodes) launch failure

[Kyeong Soo (Joseph) Kim]

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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