***************** Start an instance ***************** description ============ Starts an instance from any AMI on AWS. command-line ============= >>> ./EHPC-Client --start OPTIONS Note: all options should be in form parameter=value Options: --help, -h prints help --region, -r region of interest EU1,USE1,USW1,Asia1 --name Name of cluster created default HPC-cloud --amiID, -ami ID of AMI to load --log-File path to a file to log progress to --emulate Print the commands which will run but nothing will be done on AWS AWS Credentials --private-Key, -pk path of the private file --certificate, -cert path of the cert file --conf take credentials from preconfigured file Nodes Configuration --key-pair, -kp key pair to start compute nodes with, default Current KeyPair --security-group, -sg security group for compute nodes, default Current Security Group --instances-type, -t instance type of all nodes --user-data data to be sent to the machine command line examples ===================== **Example 1** create cluster of ``AMI ami-898989`` of ``m1.xlarge`` in ``eu-west-1`` with KeyPair ``HPCloud-Key`` and set the security group to ``HPCloud`` and use ``EHPC-Client --start --conf=default -r=EU1 -t=m1.xlarge -kp=HPCloud-Key -sg=HPCloud -ami=ami-898989`` Output ``URL``