[CIG-SHORT] Cloud computing

[Tabrez Ali]

Lorraine, please, of course. Although they are no different than those 
for any other Linux machine. I think the PyLith binary (x86_64) should 
just run as it is.

Regards,

Tabrez

On 01/21/2016 12:06 PM, Lorraine Hwang wrote:
> 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
>
>
> Best,
> -Lorraine
>
> *****************************
> Lorraine Hwang, Ph.D.
> Associate Director, CIG
> 530.752.3656
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>
>> On Jan 21, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Tabrez Ali <stali at geology.wisc.edu 
>> <mailto: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). 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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