From time to time StarCluster may provide updated AMIs. These AMIs might simply contain new OS versions or could fix a bug experienced by StarCluster users. Either way, it’s useful to be able to look at the latest available StarCluster AMIs.
To look at a list of all currently available public StarCluster AMIs, including 32bit and 64bit, run the listpublic command:
$ starcluster listpublic
At the time of writing this doc the output looks like:
$ starcluster listpublic
StarCluster - (http://web.mit.edu/starcluster) (v. 0.9999)
Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
Please submit bug reports to starcluster@mit.edu
>>> Listing all public StarCluster images...
32bit Images:
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[0] ami-8cf913e5 us-east-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-10.04-x86-rc3
[1] ami-d1c42db8 us-east-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-9.10-x86-rc8
[2] ami-17b15e7e us-east-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-9.10-x86-rc7
[3] ami-8f9e71e6 us-east-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-9.04-x86
64bit Images:
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[0] ami-0af31963 us-east-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-10.04-x86_64-rc1
[1] ami-8852a0e1 us-east-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-10.04-x86_64-hadoop
[2] ami-a5c42dcc us-east-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-9.10-x86_64-rc4
[3] ami-2941ad40 us-east-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-9.10-x86_64-rc3
[4] ami-a19e71c8 us-east-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-9.04-x86_64
[5] ami-06a75a6f us-east-1 starcluster-base-centos-5.4-x86_64-ebs-hvm-gpu-hadoop-rc2 (HVM-EBS)
[6] ami-12b6477b us-east-1 starcluster-base-centos-5.4-x86_64-ebs-hvm-gpu-rc2 (HVM-EBS)
total images: 11