Re: [Condor-users] Condor + EC2

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/15/2011 01:27 AM, Tiago Macarios wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to get condor to run on amazon ec2. I am trying to use
> ubuntu and the standard apt-get ubuntu (7.2.4), but I saw at some places
> that this version may be a bit old for that. Did any of you guys made it
> work using this configuration?
>
> Would you have any suggestion of distros I could try? I found this link
> that seems to be what I wanted to do, but I am not familiar with Fedora
> and wanted to try ubuntu first:
> http://spinningmatt.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/getting-started-condor-and-ec2-ec2-execute-node/
>
> To be honest I am new to condor, have been playing around for about 2
> weeks on a couple of virtual machines. I tried installing the last
> stable release of condor in ubuntu, but I failed is there a tutorial for
> installing it on ubuntu?
> I saw this version here: http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/condor.html did
> anyone tried it out?
>
> Please help me out. I am more than willing to write a documentation
> about it if I get things running.
>
> --
> Tiago

If you want to run your whole pool in EC2 then you should try following,

http://spinningmatt.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/getting-started-installing-a-single-node-condor-pool/

then,

https://spinningmatt.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/getting-started-multiple-node-condor-pool-with-firewalls/

The primary difference for the instructions in EC2 is that you need to 
authorize ports in the instance's security group as well as iptables.

The instructions talk about using the condor_shared_port feature, which 
isn't available in 7.2.4 (IIRC).

If you're itching for Ubuntu, you could try UW's debian repository from,

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/debian/

Otherwise, I'd suggest just trying the Fedora AMIs,

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_images

A gotcha[0] is resolved in the updates-testing repository.

Best,


matt

[0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656562