The ElasticWulf project consists of Python command line tools to launch and configure a beowulf cluster on Amazon EC2. We also include AMI build scripts for master and worker nodes based on x64 Fedora Core 6 instances.

The final machine images are publicly available on Amazon:

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IMAGE ami-eb13f682 datawrangling-images/FC6×64-ec2wulf-worker.manifest.xml

The Python cluster management code should be uploaded the Monday after PyCon...

• PyCon 2008 Slides
• Getting started tutorial for the older 32 bit version

The new x64 images include IPython1 and other useful packages like:

• BLAS/LAPACK
• Numpy/Scipy
• ipython
• matplotlib
• OpenMPI
• MPICH
• MPICH2
• LAM
• Xwindows
• NFS
• Ganglia
• C3 tools
• Twisted
• mpi4py
• boto