Information about the package, StarCluster, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The StarCluster package is designed for, Tool for managing computing clusters hosted on Amazon's EC2.
Package Name:
StarCluster
Summary:
Tool for managing computing clusters hosted on Amazon's EC2
Description:
StarCluster is an open source cluster-computing toolkit for Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). StarCluster has been designed to automate and simplify the process of building, configuring, and managing clusters of virtual machines on Amazon’s EC2 cloud. StarCluster allows anyone to easily create a cluster computing environment in the cloud suited for distributed and parallel computing applications and systems.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.9999
Release:
0.4.0.94.el6
Size:
509 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv3 and LGPLv2+ and (MIT or BSD or GPLv2) and (MIT or GPLv2)
Control the StarCluster package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install StarCluster
This command will install StarCluster on the server.
yum remove StarCluster
This command will un-install StarCluster on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove StarCluster, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove StarCluster
This command will un-install StarCluster on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove StarCluster when using the -y flag.
yum update StarCluster
This command will update StarCluster to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove StarCluster, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update StarCluster
This command will update StarCluster to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove StarCluster when using the -y flag.
yum info StarCluster
This command will show you core information about the StarCluster package.
yum deplist StarCluster
This command will show you the dependencies for StarCluster. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update StarCluster
This command will check if there is an update waiting on StarCluster. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.