Re: [Condor-users] Installing and running Condor on Amazon EC2 windows AMI

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/12/2010 02:13 PM, Rob Matthews wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am slowly working towards setting up a condor pool comprised of Amazon
> EC2 instances. In other words an ad-hoc condor pool made up of a series
> of EC2 instances networked together each running condor. I am a bit of a
> novice with EC2 but I think I might be able to do this with a Virtual
> Private Cloud in EC2. Anyway the executable I need to run within the
> pool on EC2 is built for Windows, so as a first step I am just trying to
> install and run condor on a single EC2 Windows instance.
>
> I am using the msi installer and leaving the default options and condor
> seems to install successfully. After installing and running
> ‘condor_store_cred’ I can submit a (dagman) job and condor_q shows the
> jobs in the queue. However condor_status does not work (reports nothing)
> and the jobs in the queue never get executed. This same job works fine
> on a small local test pool made up of physical machines so I suspect the
> problem is not in the job but in the install configuration on the EC2
> instance. Does anyone have any experience with this or suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob Matthews

Not specifically for Windows execute nodes in EC2, but Red Hat's Cloud 
Foundations documentation covers local Submit+CM and EC2 based Execute 
node configurations.

Best,


matt