Re: [Starcluster] cluster start-up hangs when starting Sun Grid Engine

From: Thomas Deselaers <no email>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:37:07 +0200

Hi,

I have been using only m1.large. So far only in master + 1-3 nodes.

t.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 21:31, Damian Eads <eads_at_soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Thomas Deselaers
> <deselaers_at_vision.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 21:01, Justin Riley <jtriley_at_mit.edu> wrote:
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>>> Hi Damian,
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>>> You're experiencing the same problem as Gabriel earlier. Basically with
>>> the 64bit StarCluster AMI it has a problem with NFS and this is what
>>> you're experiencing.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Justin, just to let you know: I have also been using the 64bit amis
>> and have not had any problems at all.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> thomas
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I don't think the issue was 64-bit AMIs but 64-bit AMIs on certain
> machines, and in particular, 8 core machines like c1.xlarge and
> m2.xlarge. I could sometimes get the AMI to start on 8 core machines
> (maybe because my configuration incorrectly specified m1.large?) but
> most of the time it would hang at cluster creation time. You may be
> able to use all 8 cores manually by spawning processes at the shell,
> ssh, fork(), or pthreads but can you use MPI, grid, or any other job
> management tool on 8 core machines using the older 64-bit AMI. Please
> clarify how you're using the older 64-bit AMIs and on what
> architecture?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Damian
>
>

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Received on Sat Apr 17 2010 - 18:37:30 EDT