[CIG-SHORT] Cloud computing

[Tabrez Ali]

Amazon's EC2 works very well. They even have a free tier (useful for 
testing). With a Debian based instance (e.g., Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) you 
should be able to use the official PyLith binaries as it is.

If you want you can also compile everything from source. I do have some 
instructions for building PETSc (top half in 
http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~stali/defmod/ec2.txt). After that just 
follow PyLith's own installation instructions.

You can even install ParaView and visualize remotely (using ParaView's 
python scripts). That way you wont have to frequently transfer files 
(Amazon charges for transferring data).

For building everything get the free tier machine. When you are ready to 
run large problems, simply launch the instance on the larger hardware 
and it will all work fine.

The only problem is that they charge you by the hour and not the minute.

Tabrez

On 01/21/2016 10:35 AM, Bobak Karimi wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity (and necessity), are there any cloud computing 
> platforms that I could access to process my models in PyLith? Amazon 
> cloud?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bobby Karimi
>
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