Re: [Starcluster] problem with centOS ami?

From: Fred Rotbart <no email>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:09:38 +1000

A Cluster Compute Image. Exactly.

- Fred

On 6/09/10 22:54 , Dan Yamins wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Fred Rotbart <rotbart_at_softbart.com
> <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> The image I meant was ami-7ea24a17 which is the Amazon generic
> Cluster Compute image.
> Rightscale have a beta image,ami-78947f11, which is also Cluster
> Compute compatible.
>
>
> Ah -- well, I wasn't intending it to be a Cluster Compute image ... it
> was just meant for "regular" amazon images. Are you asking about
> building a centOS Cluster Compute image?
>
> In fact, AFAIK currently these are the only two public images
> available for Cluster Compute.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> - Fred
>
>
> On 3/09/10 23:57 , Dan Yamins wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Fred Rotbart
> <rotbart_at_softbart.com <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com>
> <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com>>> wrote:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> I had started building a lot of stuff from sources. However, the
> Python 2.6 I took from
> http://chrislea.com/2009/09/09/easy-python-2-6-django-on-centos-5/.
> Any advantage to building the Python from sources?
>
>
> Well, three reasons:
>
> 1) I needed a 64-bit install. Typically I've found that 64-bit
> pre-compiled binaries are less reliable than building 64-bit.
> This is
> the main reason I used a source as opposed to a pre-compiled
> binary (e.g
> from python.org <http://python.org> <http://python.org> itself).
>
>
> 2) As explained at the top of Chris Lea's post, overwriting the
> system
> python on centOS with python26 is really bad. I really really
> needed
> to make sure that it didn't screw things up and so I decided to
> install
> in /opt, where a completely standard install would work fine and
> be sure
> not to interfere. To make a package install work while
> completely not
> interfering with the other system installs, putting all the relevant
> byte-compiled dependencies in version-number-named places
> throughout the
> distros, requires alot of finicky work. I'm not comfortable
> enough with
> yum to feel like I totally understood how to evaluate whether
> any given
> person's repo was likely to be "right". This is the main reason I
> would use a non-yum-based install vs. a repo install.
>
> 3) I wasn't aware of Chris Lea's work -- thank you so much for
> telling
> me of it If I had known of it, perhaps I would have used it (if
> there's
> a 64-bit version) -- but subject to the above provisos.
>
>
> BTW why did you use the Rightscale image rather than using the
> Amazon one?
>
>
> I've typically found Rightscale images to be more reliable than
> Amazon
> ones actually -- and more things I already need are on them. Which
> amazon image were you referring to?
>
>
>
> - Fred
>
>
> On 3/09/10 09:49 , Dan Yamins wrote:
>
> Fred, sorry for the delay in reply.
>
> I've put the instructions up here at this google doc
>
> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J
> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J>
> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J
> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J>>
> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J
> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J>
> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J
> <https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J>>>
>
> Let me know if you can't access this doc.
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Fred Rotbart
> <rotbart_at_softbart.com <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com>
> <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com>>
> <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com>
> <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com <mailto:rotbart_at_softbart.com>>>> wrote:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Did you happen to make a cookbook for making the CentOS
> StarCluster AMI?
> If so can you make it available?
>
> - Fred
>
>
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