Re: 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 14:42:31 -0500

I see that this has already been asked several times:
http://star.mit.edu/cluster/mlarchives/2690.html,
http://star.mit.edu/cluster/mlarchives/2545.html,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RBupgpi_ec, etc.

Which of these guides should I use? Why hasn't an Ubuntu 14.04 AMI been
made public by the StarCluster development team yet? Are there plans to do
this? Meanwhile, could someone make their AMI public?

It seems there is widespread interest in updated AMIs (EBS and HVM-EBS
versions).

Thanks so much,
Avner

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Avner May <avnermay_at_cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

> 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 I have noticed that the public StarCluster AMIs are pretty outdated, with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 - 14:42:53 EST