Re: starcluster on EBS quick start

From: Justin Riley <no email>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:54:49 -0500

Hi Liang,

What is the error you're getting when you run "starcluster start -x" on
the same cluster?

~Justin

On 01/06/2012 03:46 AM, liang cheng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does starcluster have a quick start how to use EBS to create/backup the
> images ?
>
> I installed starcluster 0.93. After some simple changes following this
> link http://web.mit.edu/stardev/cluster/docs/latest/quickstart.html, I'm
> able to start and stop a cluster. But I got error when "starcluster
> start -x " the same cluster.
>
> Can someone give me a pointer ?
>
> Thanks,
> -Liang
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin_at_yahoo.com
> <mailto:raysonlogin_at_yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
> Nicolas,
>
> Micro instances can only support launching from an EBS based AMI, as
> t1.micro cannot use the local disk (it is a designed feature, not a
> bug). Gpucluster works because the instance type can use the disk
> local to the node.
>
>
> Can you check the image and see if it is EBS-based or S3-based??
>
>
> Rayson
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nicolas Pinto <nicolas.pinto_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:nicolas.pinto_at_gmail.com>>
> To: starcluster <starcluster_at_mit.edu <mailto:starcluster_at_mit.edu>>
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 12:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [StarCluster] Using Starcluster with micro instances?
>
> Cc'ing the mailing list.
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> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Nicolas Pinto
> <nicolas.pinto_at_gmail.com <mailto:nicolas.pinto_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Quick question from:
> > http://forum.cs264.org/index.php?topic=411.0
> >
> > There seems to be an issue when trying t1.micro with StarCluster
> AMIs, e.g.:
> >
> > % ec2-run-instances -key kp ami-bf5eb9d6 -t t1.micro
> > Client.UnsupportedOperation: AMI 'ami-bf5eb9d6' with an instance-store
> > root device is not supported for the instance type 't1.micro'.
> >
> > I'm having the same issue.
>
>
>
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> Nicolas Pinto
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