R help - Dec 2009 - R on amazon's EC2 "cloud"?

Hi All,

I was wondering if anybody had experience running R on amazon's ec2
"cloud"?  More specifically, has anybody created an "amazon
machine
image" (AMI) for use with it?  I was wondering if there was a quantian
type image available as an amazon machine image, maybe running debian
or ubuntu?   It supports open MPI among other libs which is nice.

It would be nice to put together a hardware optimized image that the
community could use (eg lapack with openmp blas support that kind of
thing), maybe a debian with no X installed, but including R + all
packages?

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing

I'm at the point where it's almost easier/cost effective to outsource
the hardware...

I bring this up because I saw that they were going to start a spot
market for cycles- useful for things like MCMC chains that need lots
of runs...
http://bit.ly/8A2e1g

Go to:

http://biocep-distrib.r-forge.r-project.org/


Choose "documentation", scroll own you will see a section called:

"Biocep-R on Amazon's Cloud"

-roy M.

On Dec 17, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Blair Christian wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if anybody had experience running R on amazon's ec2
> "cloud"?  More specifically, has anybody created an "amazon
machine
> image" (AMI) for use with it?  I was wondering if there was a quantian
> type image available as an amazon machine image, maybe running debian
> or ubuntu?   It supports open MPI among other libs which is nice.
> 
> It would be nice to put together a hardware optimized image that the
> community could use (eg lapack with openmp blas support that kind of
> thing), maybe a debian with no X installed, but including R + all
> packages?
> 
> http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
> 
> I'm at the point where it's almost easier/cost effective to
outsource
> the hardware...
> 
> I bring this up because I saw that they were going to start a spot
> market for cycles- useful for things like MCMC chains that need lots
> of runs...
> http://bit.ly/8A2e1g
> 
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On 17 December 2009 at 12:55, Blair Christian wrote:
| Hi All,
| 
| I was wondering if anybody had experience running R on amazon's ec2
| "cloud"?  More specifically, has anybody created an "amazon
machine
| image" (AMI) for use with it?  I was wondering if there was a quantian
| type image available as an amazon machine image, maybe running debian
| or ubuntu?   It supports open MPI among other libs which is nice.
| 
| It would be nice to put together a hardware optimized image that the
| community could use (eg lapack with openmp blas support that kind of
| thing), maybe a debian with no X installed, but including R + all
| packages?

Ubuntu has been supporting AMIs for a while, one decent link may be

       https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2StartersGuide

The most recent Ubuntu release contains the REvolution R + Canonical
cooperation comprising the Intel MKLs which should be faster than Atlas.

Dirk

-- 
Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.

Hello,

I tried Amazon EC2 with R recently and wrote an entry about it to a blog 
I collaborate with:

http://analisisydecision.es/probando-r-sobre-el-ec2-de-amazon/

(Unfortunately, it is in Spanish...)

Best regards,

Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
http://www.datanalytics.com


Blair Christian wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if anybody had experience running R on amazon's ec2
> "cloud"?  More specifically, has anybody created an "amazon
machine
> image" (AMI) for use with it?  I was wondering if there was a quantian
> type image available as an amazon machine image, maybe running debian
> or ubuntu?   It supports open MPI among other libs which is nice.
> 
> It would be nice to put together a hardware optimized image that the
> community could use (eg lapack with openmp blas support that kind of
> thing), maybe a debian with no X installed, but including R + all
> packages?
> 
> http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
> 
> I'm at the point where it's almost easier/cost effective to
outsource
> the hardware...
> 
> I bring this up because I saw that they were going to start a spot
> market for cycles- useful for things like MCMC chains that need lots
> of runs...
> http://bit.ly/8A2e1g
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>