HTCondorWiki: Creating Condor Pools At Amazon

 
 1: Open HTCondor's {link: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B073WHVRPR Marketplace entry} in another tab.
 1: Click the orange 'Continue' button to the right.  You may need to log in to AWS at this point.
-1: This is a busy page, but there's only one thing you may have to change on it: the "key pair" setting, which is all the way down at the bottom.  Change the selected key pair, if necessary, to be one whose private half you have.
+1: This is a busy page, but there's only one thing you may have to change: the "key pair" setting, which is all the way down at the bottom.  Change the selected key pair, if necessary, to be one whose private half you have.
 1: This step is where you will start spending money.  Scroll back up; there will be section to the right titled "Price for your Selections."  That's what Amazon will charge starting when you click the orange 'Launch with one-click' button.  We'll remind you in these instructions, but you'll have to stop or terminate the instance your about to start on your own.
 1: On the next page, click on the "Your Software" link in the green box.
 
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 1: Click on your user name.
 1: Click on the "security credentials" tab.
 1: Click the "Create access key" button.
-1: Copy the value in the column labelled "Access key ID" to =publicKeyFile=.  Also copy this value to your laptop or desktop computer; you'll want to have it if you use =condor_annex= again.
-1: Click the "Show" link in the column labelled "Secret access key"; copy the revealed value to =privateKeyFile=.  Also copy this value to your laptop or desktop computer; you'll want to have it if you use =condor_annex= again.
+1: Copy the value in the column labelled "Access key ID" to =publicKeyFile=.  Also copy this value to your laptop or desktop computer; you'll want to have the value if you use =condor_annex= again.
+1: Click the "Show" link in the column labelled "Secret access key"; copy the revealed value to =privateKeyFile=.  Also copy this value to your laptop or desktop computer; you'll want to have the value if you use =condor_annex= again.
 1: Hit the "Close" button.
 
 {subsection: 2.3 Prepare your Account}
 
-The following command will prepare your AWS account for =condor_annex=.  It will create a number of persistent components, none of which will cost you anything to keep around.  These components can take quite some time to create; =condor_annex= checks each for completion every ten seconds and prints an additional dot (past the first three) when it does so, to let you know that everything's still working.
+The following command will prepare your AWS account for =condor_annex=.  =condor_annex= will create a number of persistent components, none of which will cost you anything to keep around.  These components can take quite some time to create; =condor_annex= checks each for completion every ten seconds and prints an additional dot (past the first three) each time, to let you know that everything's still working.
 
 {term}
 $ condor_annex -setup
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 {subsection: 2.4 Add Cloud Resources}
 
-Run the following command; if you type 'yes', it will add ten instances to the pool for no more than 24 hours:
+Run the following command; if you type 'yes', =condor_annex= will add ten instances to the pool for no more than 24 hours:
 
 {term}
 $ condor_annex -count 10 -duration 24 -annex-name MyFirstAnnex
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 {subsection: 4.1 The Cloud Resources}
 
-One of the benefits of using =condor_annex= is that it will automatically terminate instances after a certain amount of time (24 hours in the example above).  This happens even if the instance is running a job at the time, to make sure that misbehaving jobs don't cause you to spend more than you intended.  Additionally, if at any time it's been too long (15 minutes by default) since an instance ran a job, it will shut itself down to save you money.  However, if you'd like to shut down the instances early, you can do so using the =condor_off= command, replacing =MyFirstAnnex= with the name of the annex you'd like to shut down:
+One of the benefits of using =condor_annex= is that the cloud resources in acquires will automatically terminate after a certain amount of time (24 hours in the example above).  This happens even if the instance is running a job at the time, to make sure that misbehaving jobs don't cause you to spend more than you intended.  Additionally, if at any time it's been too long (15 minutes by default) since an instance ran a job, the instance will shut itself down to save you money.  However, if you'd like to shut down the instances early, you can do so using the =condor_off= command, replacing =MyFirstAnnex= with the name of the annex you'd like to shut down:
 
 {term}
 $ condor_off -annex MyFirstAnnex
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 {subsection: 4.2 The Head Node}
 
-As noted above, you'll need to clean the head node up yourself.  If you don't want to keep any of your changes, then you should "terminate" the head node to avoid paying for storage.  If you just want to save money and pick up where you left off a bit later, you should instead "stop" the head node; you'll pay to keep its disk around until you start it again later.  Both options are under "Instance State" if you right-click on the instance in the EC2 console.
+As noted above, you'll need to clean the head node up yourself.  If you don't want to keep any of your changes, then you should "terminate" the head node to avoid paying for storage.  If you just want to save money and pick up where you left off a bit later, you should instead "stop" the head node; you'll pay to keep its disk around until you start the head node again later.  Both options are under "Instance State" if you right-click on the instance in the EC2 console.