[StarCluster] IPython cluster plugin questions and suggested improvements

[Olivier Grisel]

Hi,

I have a couple of questions for the ipcluster plugin:

1- Is there an (dev) 64bit AMI with the latest stable release of
IPython (0.13) instead of 0.12?
2- Would it be possible to extend the ipcluster plugin to have the
nodes install the dev version of ipython instead of the system version
on startup? For instance by cloning a tag or a specific branch
(master) of the IPython github repo.
3- Would be possible to make ipcluster not use SGE for engine
configuration and only use ssh instead, for instance as documented in
this very short blog post:
http://graal.ift.ulaval.ca/jeanfrancisroy/2012/09/27/using-ipython-for-parallel-computing/
The goal would be to speedup cluster startup by skipping the SGE
setup.

If you think 2 and 3 are desirable contributions for the project I can
work on 2 pull requests for those.

Best,

-- 
Olivier
http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel