Re: Cluster extension using StarCluster

From: Rayson Ho <no email>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:29:11 -0500

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Peter Maday <madapeti_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> The basic idea is to have some physical nodes in addition to the EC2
> instances, and only consume AWS resources when it really is necessary
> based on the queue status. Aside from the management of the AWS
> instances there would be no additional difference with respect to the
> SGE operation is this correct?

Hi Peter,

Booting up an instance in EC2, adding it to the Grid Engine cluster is
the easy part. The more difficult parts are:

- input & output data transfer
- user account provisioning
- application & software library installation

Rayson

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>
> Thanks a lot,
> Peter
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