Updating public AMIs to have Ubuntu 14.04? Or how to install starcluster on AWS AMI?

From: Avner May <no email>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:30:14 -0500

Hi,

My goal is to have a StarCluster AMI with Ubuntu 14.04, CUDA 7.5, and the
latest NVIDIA drivers (I want to use g2.2xlarge instance type).

I have noticed that the public StarCluster AMIs are pretty outdated, with
the most up-to-date AMIs using Ubuntu 13.04, which has already reached its "end
of life
<http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/01/28/ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail-end-of-life-reached-on-january-27-2014/>".
Could an Ubuntu 14.04 + 64-bit + HVM-EBS public AMI be created, with CUDA
7.5 and the latest NVIDIA driver
<http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/97645/en-us> installed?
This would be incredibly useful. I am having a very hard time
upgrading ami-6b211202 for my needs (I have run into issues updating
ubuntu, as well as installing NVIDIA drivers and CUDA).

Here
<http://tleyden.github.io/blog/2014/10/25/cuda-6-dot-5-on-aws-gpu-instance-running-ubuntu-14-dot-04/>
are instructions on how to install NVIDIA drivers and CUDA on Ubuntu 14.04
AMI (ami-9eaa1cf6). So another option which would satisfy my needs would
be if you simply gave me instructions on how to install StarCluster on this
AMI.

Any advice on the easiest way to get a working StarCluster AMI, with an up
to date version of Ubuntu, would be great.

Thanks!
Avner
Received on Thu Jan 28 2016 - 14:30:36 EST