Re: starcluster instance types

From: Eduardo Gurgel Valente <no email>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:11:33 -0500

Understood. I hadn't caught the nuance of installation issues as well. Good
info.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:02 AM, MacMullan, Hugh <hughmac_at_wharton.upenn.edu
> wrote:

> Agreed! And installing via 'git clone ++ python setup.py install' vs. 'pip
> install starcluster' will fix the issue in Laura's environment.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Hugh
>
>
>
> *From:* Eduardo Gurgel Valente [mailto:evalente_at_navteca.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 17, 2015 10:00 AM
> *To:* MacMullan, Hugh <hughmac_at_wharton.upenn.edu>
> *Cc:* Laura Del Caño <ldelcano_at_gmail.com>; starcluster <
> starcluster_at_mit.edu>
>
> *Subject:* Re: [StarCluster] starcluster instance types
>
>
>
> Hi Hugh,
>
>
>
> I think the comment and Laura's issue remains. The latest update didn't
> include all m4 types only m4.10xlarge. For reference
> https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/the-new-m4-instance-type-bonus-price-reduction-on-m3-c4/
>
>
>
> Eduardo
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:53 AM, MacMullan, Hugh <
> hughmac_at_wharton.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> To follow up on what Eduardo said, if it's not clear:
>
>
>
> 1. the 'pip install starcluster' version doesn't contain the latest
> instance types
>
> 2. the repo in GitHub does (updated only 5 days ago)
>
>
>
> git clone https://github.com/jtriley/StarCluster.git
>
> cd StarCluster
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> python setup.py install
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>
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> You should be good to go.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Hugh
>
>
>
> *From:* starcluster-bounces_at_mit.edu [mailto:starcluster-bounces_at_mit.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Eduardo Gurgel Valente
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 17, 2015 9:31 AM
> *To:* Laura Del Caño <ldelcano_at_gmail.com>
> *Cc:* starcluster <starcluster_at_mit.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [StarCluster] starcluster instance types
>
>
>
> Hi Laura,
>
>
>
> While I haven't tried it, it seems that the file starcluster/static.py
> holds the relevant structures that keep the types. The full link from
> github is
> https://github.com/jtriley/StarCluster/blob/155365d7c9e07e11b5272ddef93e324ecb8c031d/starcluster/static.py
>
> What new types are you looking for?
>
>
>
> Eduardo
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>
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> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Laura Del Caño <ldelcano_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am starting to use starcluster to set up our cluster on AWS but I am
> encountering a problem.
>
> According to the config file, instance types must be one of the following:
>
> # instance type for all cluster nodes
> # (options: m3.large, c3.8xlarge, i2.8xlarge, t2.micro, hs1.8xlarge,
> c1.xlarge, r3.4xlarge, g2.2xlarge, m1.small, c1.medium, m3.2xlarge,
> c3.2xlarge, m2.xlarge, m2.2xlarge, t2.small, r3.2xlarge, t1.micro,
> cr1.8xlarge, r3.8xlarge, cc1.4xlarge, m1.medium, r3.large, c3.xlarge,
> i2.xlarge, m3.medium, cc2.8xlarge, m1.large, cg1.4xlarge, i2.2xlarge,
> c3.large, i2.4xlarge, c3.4xlarge, r3.xlarge, t2.medium, hi1.4xlarge,
> m2.4xlarge, m1.xlarge, m3.xlarge)
>
> However I can see most of them are AWS previous generation types (not that
> good and also more expensive).
>
> Is this an updated list? Is there a reason for this and/or a way to
> overcome this limitation?
>
> I am on us-east-1 region although I don't know if this depends on regions.
>
>
>
> thanks alot
>
> Laura
>
>
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