[StarCluster] running starcluster on openstack

[Rayson Ho]

OpenStack (Nova) supports the EC2 way of injecting SSH keys into instances:

http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/booting-a-test-image.html

Rayson

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On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Shunde Zhang
<shunde.zhang at adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Rayson,
>
> I finally managed to fire up a VM in my local KVM (not in OpenStack), just
> want to see how it works.
> But I don't know the password for ubuntu user or root user, so I can't log
> in still.
> I see in the image that there is cloud-init. Do you use that to set
> passwords?
> Or there is a default password?
>
>
> Regards,
> Shunde Zhang
>
> School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, "Life Impact"
> Email: shunde.zhang at adelaide.edu.au
> Phone: +61 8 83038265
>
> eResearch SA (eRSA), "Enabling Discovery, Innovation and Collaboration
> through eResearch"
> 14 Little Queen Street, Thebarton, SA 5031
> Email: shunde.zhang at eresearchsa.edu.au
>
>
>
> On 02/07/2012, at 11:50 PM, Rayson Ho wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Shunde Zhang
> <shunde.zhang at adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Rayson,
>
>
> Thanks a lot for the information.
>
> I have successfully downloaded the images, but I am not sure how to use
>
> them.
>
> Do you think I can load them into OpenStack without any changes?
>
>
> They are ISO images, so you will need to convert them from ISO to KVM
> (or Xen) image format. Also, OpenStack does not have its own VMM, so
> if you are using KVM/QEMU (IIRC, KVM is the kernel part, so it's QEMU
> that reads the image), then you will need to find the a way to convert
> the ISOs to a format that KVM/QEMU uses.
>
> Rayson
>
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> Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine
> http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/
>
>
>
> I am also trying to launch a VM from the image in KVM but not much luck.
>
> Do you know how to fire up a VM from the image?
>
> Is there a document you could probably point me to?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Shunde Zhang
>
>
> School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, "Life Impact"
>
> Email: shunde.zhang at adelaide.edu.au
>
> Phone: +61 8 83038265
>
>
> eResearch SA (eRSA), "Enabling Discovery, Innovation and Collaboration
>
> through eResearch"
>
> 14 Little Queen Street, Thebarton, SA 5031
>
> Email: shunde.zhang at eresearchsa.edu.au
>
>
>
>
> On 29/06/2012, at 1:44 AM, Rayson Ho wrote:
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>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Shunde Zhang
>
> <shunde.zhang at adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> Given that openstack has an ec2-like interface, I wonder if I can use
>
>
> start cluster with openstack?
>
>
>
> See:
>
> http://www.cybera.ca/tech-radar/making-starcluster-work-with-openstack
>
>
>
> Also you have put some images into ec2 for star cluster to fire up VMs.
>
>
> Those images seem to have SGE pre-installed, don't they?
>
>
>
> The AMIs have SGE loaded, and the starcluster command runs setup every
>
> time you launch a cluster.
>
>
>
> Can I download the images from somewhere so I can put them into our
>
>
> openstack image repository?
>
>
>
> http://web.mit.edu/star/cluster/download_amis.html
>
>
> Rayson
>
>
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>
> Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine
>
> http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Shunde Zhang
>
>
>
> School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, "Life Impact"
>
>
> Email: shunde.zhang at adelaide.edu.au
>
>
> Phone: +61 8 83038265
>
>
>
> eResearch SA (eRSA), "Enabling Discovery, Innovation and
>
>
> Collaboration through eResearch"
>
>
> 14 Little Queen Street, Thebarton, SA 5031
>
>
> Email: shunde.zhang at eresearchsa.edu.au
>
>
>
>
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