Launching a Cluster on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Using StarCluster 2011 Customer Training Learn, have fun, and change the world! C:\Users\mculver\Pictures\AWS Logos\AWS_LOGO_RGB_EPS.eps with Chris Dagdigian from BioTeam Compute Farming On The Cloud Shared storage … Node001 EC2 NodeN EC2 AWS Region Cluster Master ( Grid Engine ) EC2 Client EC2 or Desktop running Linux What are Spot Instances? Availability Zone Region Availability Zone Unused Unused Unused Unused Unused Unused Sold at 50% Discount! Sold at 56% Discount! Sold at 66% Discount! Sold at 59% Discount! Sold at 54% Discount! Sold at 63% Discount! What is the tradeoff? Availability Zone Region Availability Zone Unused Unused Unused Unused Unused Unused Reclaimed Reclaimed When to use Spot Instances? Scientific Research Financial Services Video Encoding & Image Processing Web Crawling & Data Processing Testing What is StarCluster? Master Disk … Node001 EC2 NodeN EC2 AWS Region Cluster Master (Oracle Grid Engine) EC2 Client EC2 or Desktop running Linux StarCluster is installed on a client machine A master node is launched Worker nodes are provisioned Communication is setup via an shared disk drive Your cluster is ready to use Where to get StarCluster http://web.mit.edu/stardev/cluster/