[StarCluster] Little question

[C. Titus Brown]

Hi Sergio, I've done it both ways and it seems to work fine either way. Not
sure what the best practice is.

--t

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:22:02AM -0400, Rayson Ho wrote:
> Hi Sergio,
> 
> Sorry, I have never played with creating an new AMI using StarCluster
> before. I read the code a few weeks ago but then was busy with
> preparing the Linux cgroups integration demo for ISC'12.
> 
> http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/
> http://blogs.scalablelogic.com/2012/05/grid-engine-cgroups-integration.html
> https://www.gompute.com/web/guest/isc12
> 
> If Justin or others don't get back to you, then I can take a look at
> it later this week - as I need to use this functionality myself as
> well!
> 
> However, instead of waiting, you can always setup a 1 or 2 node
> t1.micro StarCluster and experiment with it. As long as you are under
> the 750 instance-hour, 5GB-month S3, and 30GB-month EBS limit, then
> you can experiment with the free tier without worrying about cost.
> 
> Rayson
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Sergio Mafra <sergiohmafra at gmail.com> wrote:
> > C'mon friends.
> >
> > Need some help here.
> > Simple question: Building an image from the current instance that I'm using
> > in the StarCluster will work or not as a golden image for next clusters
> > configuration?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Sergio
> >
> >
> > Em quarta-feira, 13 de junho de 2012, Sergio Mafra escreveu:
> >>
> >> Hi fellows,
> >>
> >> After lauching the cluster using StarCluster, we did some custom
> >> installation on that. Now we want to make it our customized AMI since we
> >> will need it as base for adding and removing nodes as the load of cluster
> >> asks for.
> >> If I build an image of this current AMI using AWS Console, terminate the
> >> current cluster and relaunch it using the new customized AMI... will it
> >> work?
> >>
> >> All the best and sorry for this newbie questions..
> >>
> >> Sergio
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Sergio Mafra <sergiohmafra at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Em segunda-feira, 11 de junho de 2012, Ron Chen escreveu:
> >>>
> >>>> Basically, I think the idea is that StarCluster users can do everything
> >>>> with the StarCluster command line, with no dependencies on the AWS Console.
> >>>>
> >>>> ?-Ron
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: Dustin Machi <dmachi at vbi.vt.edu>
> >>>> To: Sergio Mafra <sergiohmafra at gmail.com>
> >>>> Cc: starcluster at mit.edu
> >>>> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 2:39 PM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [StarCluster] Little question
> >>>>
> >>>> It is a multistep process, so the star cluster command just makes it
> >>>> convenient.
> >>>>
> >>>> Dustin
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jun 11, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Sergio Mafra wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> > Dear Friends,
> >>>> >
> >>>> > We will need to have a AMI customized for our particular needs.
> >>>> > Reading the StarCluster docs a doubt arises...What is the difference of
> >>>> > preparing a customized AMI using command "starcluster ebsimage i-999999
> >>>> > mynewAMI" or create image from AWS Console?
> >>>> >
> >>>> > All the best,
> >>>> > Sergio
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu