Re: about using the cg1.4xlarge or cc1.4xlarge instances

From: Alexey PETROV <no email>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 18:42:22 +0200

Dear Justin,

Sorry, I am very curious, how have you managed to prepare 'cg1/cc1 instance
types' once even 'canonical' team (the official Ubuntu distribution team)
have not succeed in this yet?

Best regards,
Alexey

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Justin Riley <jtriley_at_mit.edu> wrote:

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> Hi Moussa,
>
> The current stable version of StarCluster doesn't support the new
> cg1/cc1 instance types. The latest github code
> (http://github.com/jtriley/StarCluster) does have support for these new
> instance types. I recently created a new StarCluster HVM AMI for Cluster
> Compute/GPU instance types that has the same software stack as the
> paravirtual AMIs and also includes the NVIDIA Driver/CUDA
> toolkit/PyCuda/PyOpenCL for GPU programming.
>
> I haven't made the AMI public yet given that 0.91.2 doesn't support the
> new types but if you want to test the latest github code with the new
> HVM AMI, send me your AWS user id and I'll share the AMI with you. This
> goes for anyone else interested in testing the new Cluster Compute/GPU
> support as well.
>
> ~Justin
>
> On 11/29/2010 01:29 PM, Moussa Taifi wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am kind of new to this.
> >
> > I was trying to use the starcluster with the new cg1.4xlarge instances
> > but I found out that the images that are provided as example
> > (ami-a5c42dcc and ami-d1c42db8) are both paravirtual while the cluster
> > instances require hvm, hardware virtualization. not that I understand
> > fully all this yet but is there anyone that had this problem? and is
> > there an ami available to use for the cluster instances that is at the
> > same time configured like the available amis?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Moussa
> >
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> > 1. access cluster object from plugin (Dan Yamins)
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> > 3. Re: access cluster object from plugin (Dan Yamins)
> > 4. Re: access cluster object from plugin (Justin Riley)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:19:51 -0500
> > From: Dan Yamins <dyamins_at_gmail.com <mailto:dyamins_at_gmail.com>>
> > Subject: [StarCluster] access cluster object from plugin
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> > Hi Justin:
> >
> > Is there any way to access to the cluster object (and in particular
> the
> > cluster object's .ec2 attribute) from within the plugin?
> >
> > What I want to be able to do is modify the cluster permissions (e.g.
> > to open
> > a specific port) in the plugin logic ... I could do it via boto with
> the
> > cluster.ec2 object if that object is available ... or what is the
> right
> > way?
> >
> > Dan
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> > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:27:14 -0500
> > From: Justin Riley <jtriley_at_MIT.EDU <mailto:jtriley_at_MIT.EDU>>
> > Subject: Re: [StarCluster] access cluster object from plugin
> > To: starcluster_at_MIT.EDU <mailto:starcluster_at_MIT.EDU>
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> > On 11/26/10 6:19 PM, Dan Yamins wrote:
> > > Is there any way to access to the cluster object (and in particular
> > > the cluster object's .ec2 attribute) from within the plugin?
> > >
> > > What I want to be able to do is modify the cluster permissions
> (e.g.
> > > to open a specific port) in the plugin logic ... I could do it via
> > > boto with the cluster.ec2 object if that object is available ... or
> > > what is the right way?
> >
> > Assuming you're using the latest github code, each Node instance now
> has
> > an 'ec2' attribute the same as the Cluster class. So you could use
> > master.ec2.* in a plugin.
> >
> > ~Justin
> >
> >
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> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:30:28 -0500
> > From: Dan Yamins <dyamins_at_gmail.com <mailto:dyamins_at_gmail.com>>
> > Subject: Re: [StarCluster] access cluster object from plugin
> > To: starcluster_at_mit.edu <mailto:starcluster_at_mit.edu>
> > Message-ID:
> > <AANLkTin8698PjstJS7iLi-Zg4=64aT65zAyUPDB1v232_at_mail.gmail.com
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> > Great thanks.
> >
> > Hope you (and all on this list) had a great Thanksgiving!
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Justin Riley <jtriley_at_mit.edu
> > <mailto:jtriley_at_mit.edu>> wrote:
> >
> > > On 11/26/10 6:19 PM, Dan Yamins wrote:
> > > > Is there any way to access to the cluster object (and in
> particular
> > > > the cluster object's .ec2 attribute) from within the plugin?
> > > >
> > > > What I want to be able to do is modify the cluster permissions
> (e.g.
> > > > to open a specific port) in the plugin logic ... I could do it
> via
> > > > boto with the cluster.ec2 object if that object is available ...
> or
> > > > what is the right way?
> > >
> > > Assuming you're using the latest github code, each Node instance
> > now has
> > > an 'ec2' attribute the same as the Cluster class. So you could use
> > > master.ec2.* in a plugin.
> > >
> > > ~Justin
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> > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:32:02 -0500
> > From: Justin Riley <jtriley_at_MIT.EDU <mailto:jtriley_at_MIT.EDU>>
> > Subject: Re: [StarCluster] access cluster object from plugin
> > To: starcluster_at_MIT.EDU <mailto:starcluster_at_MIT.EDU>
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> > On 11/26/10 6:19 PM, Dan Yamins wrote:
> > >
> > > What I want to be able to do is modify the cluster permissions
> (e.g.
> > > to open a specific port) in the plugin logic ... I could do it via
> > > boto with the cluster.ec2 object if that object is available ... or
> > > what is the right way?
> > I assume you don't know the permissions you need before runtime and
> this
> > is why you're needing to modify security group permission settings in
> a
> > plugin. Just as a reminder, if you *do* know the permissions you can
> use
> > the new [permission] config settings.
> >
> > ~Justin
> >
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