Hi,
I'm just starting to use StarCluster and am a bit confused about the
availability of different AMIs.
I would like to use an image based on Ubuntu 11.10 to minimise the
difference between local and cloud platforms and see references to such
images in many places on the web, in particular MinRK's documentation of
his iPython plug-in. However when I run "starcluster listpublic" I can find
no trace of them instead I get the following for us-east-1:
>>> 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-8f9e71e6 us-east-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-9.04-x86
64bit Images:
--------------
[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-a19e71c8 us-east-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-9.04-x86_64
[4] ami-06a75a6f us-east-1
starcluster-base-centos-5.4-x86_64-ebs-hvm-gpu-hadoop-rc2 (HVM-EBS)
[5] ami-12b6477b us-east-1
starcluster-base-centos-5.4-x86_64-ebs-hvm-gpu-rc2 (HVM-EBS)
total images: 9
and
$ starcluster -r eu-west-1 listpublic
StarCluster - (
http://web.mit.edu/starcluster) (v. 0.92.1)
Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
Please submit bug reports to starcluster_at_mit.edu
>>> Listing all public StarCluster images...
32bit Images:
-------------
[0] ami-a4d7fdd0 eu-west-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-9.10-x86-rc8
64bit Images:
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[0] ami-38d5ff4c eu-west-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-9.10-x86_64-rc4
total images: 2
while for us-west-1 gives this:
$ starcluster -r us-west-1 listpublic
StarCluster - (
http://web.mit.edu/starcluster) (v. 0.92.1)
Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR)
Please submit bug reports to starcluster_at_mit.edu
>>> Listing all public StarCluster images...
32bit Images:
-------------
64bit Images:
--------------
total images: 0
There is however an apparently suitable AMI listed in the cluster
playground area of the site: ami-61b28015, but only in eu-west-1. The
website only lists 6 AMIs, none Ubuntu 11.10, for us-east-1.
I will probably try ami-61b28015 but I would rather work on us-east-1 from
the start. Also I don't know if there has been a problem with the recent
Ubuntu releases that I should be aware of.
Any assistance or clarification gratefully received.
Regards,
Jack Evans
Received on Tue Dec 20 2011 - 07:33:52 EST