Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: StarCluster
Version: 0.92rc1
Summary: StarCluster is a utility for creating and managing computing clusters hosted on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Home-page: http://web.mit.edu/starcluster
Author: Justin Riley
Author-email: justin.t.riley@gmail.com
License: LGPL3
Download-URL: http://web.mit.edu/starcluster
Description: 
            StarCluster is a utility for creating and managing computing clusters hosted on
            Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). StarCluster utilizes Amazon's EC2 web service
            to create and destroy clusters of Linux virtual machines on demand.
        
            To get started, the user creates a simple configuration file with their AWS account
            details and a few cluster preferences (e.g. number of machines, machine type, ssh
            keypairs, etc). After creating the configuration file and running StarCluster's
            "start" command, a cluster of Linux machines configured with the Sun Grid Engine
            queuing system, an NFS-shared /home directory, and OpenMPI with password-less ssh is
            created and ready to go out-of-the-box. Running StarCluster's "stop" command will
            shutdown the cluster and stop paying for service. This allows the user to only pay
            for what they use.
        
            StarCluster can also utilize Amazon's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes to provide
            persistent data storage for a cluster. EBS volumes allow you to store large amounts
            of data in the Amazon cloud and are also easy to back-up and replicate in the cloud.
            StarCluster will mount and NFS-share any volumes specified in the config. StarCluster's
            "createvolume" command provides the ability to automatically create, format, and
            partition new EBS volumes for use with StarCluster.
        
            StarCluster provides a Ubuntu-based Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in 32bit and 64bit
            architectures. The AMI contains an optimized NumPy/SciPy/Atlas/Blas/Lapack
            installation compiled for the larger Amazon EC2 instance types. The AMI also comes
            with Sun Grid Engine (SGE) and OpenMPI compiled with SGE support. The public AMI
            can easily be customized by launching a single instance of the public AMI,
            installing additional software on the instance, and then using StarCluster's
            "createimage" command to completely automate the process of creating a new AMI from
            an EC2 instance.
            
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Education
Classifier: Intended Audience :: System Administrators
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Other Audience
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Education
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
Classifier: Topic :: System :: Distributed Computing
Classifier: Topic :: System :: Clustering
