[CIG-SHORT] Cloud computing

[Lorraine Hwang]

Hi Tabrez,

Do you mind if I post these instructions to the pylith wiki?  It would be a good resource for others.
https://wiki.geodynamics.org/software:pylith:start <https://wiki.geodynamics.org/software:pylith:start>

Best,
-Lorraine

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Lorraine Hwang, Ph.D.
Associate Director, CIG
530.752.3656





> On Jan 21, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Tabrez Ali <stali at geology.wisc.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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 inhttp://www.geology.wisc.edu/~stali/defmod/ec2.txt <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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