Installation

description

This page describes how to install EHPC-EMR Client and make it ready for use.

Note

This scrclient requires AWS’s EMR Ruby client to be installed and configured to be able to interact with AWS’s EMR Service.

requirements

elasticHPC Client requires the following libraries to be installed:

• Python > 2.5
• Ruby 1.8
• pyCrypto >= 2.3
• simplejson
• elementTree

Install

Download Package from elasticHPC.org page

Pull the recent dev build from SVN reprository

Configuration

The EMR client requires AWS’s EMR Ruby client to be installed and configured to be able to interact with AWS’s EMR Service.

AWS EMR Client has the ability to save credentials in a file so that the user doesn’t need to provide them everytime. This is mentioned in the README file on the tool

Note

Path of AWS Ruby client has to be set the config.cfg file.

Security Group Configuration

The Client allows you to configure an old security group with the Library requirements or to create a new one security group on AWS

Configure Security Group

EHPC-EMR client communicate with the EMR cluster through a server listening on port TCP 5000.

You have to add this port to the security group ‘ElasticMapReduce-master’ by hand (like image below)