I do not know an answer, but you may want to use the amazon cluster generator (cfncluster). It is under constant development, unlike starcluster. It may be easier.
https://github.com/awslabs/cfncluster On Friday, September 9, 2016 at 7:21:33 PM UTC-5, Alexandros Fakos wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to run julia in parallel on EC2 AWS. I use the starcluster > package to create a cluster of instances. > > The problem is that the instances have already installed the 0.3.0 > prerelease. > > I log in the starcluster master node and use the instructions from > http://julialang.org/downloads/platform.html > > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:staticfloat/juliareleases > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:staticfloat/julia-deps > sudo apt-get update (this command is giving me errors: W:Failed to fetch > http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/distrs/raring etc. and > other similar messages) > sudo apt-get install julia > > Unfortunately, when I type julia in the terminal the 0.3.0 prerelease > comes up. > > Note that in my regular EC2 instance the above commands work and install > julia 0.4.6 > > As a general question, how can I launch instances with the latest stable > version of julia preinstalled? If I cannot do that, how can I install the > latest version of julia in all my cluster nodes? > > Thanks a lot, > Alex >
