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? 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... bit.ly/8A2e1g
Go to: 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? > > 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... > bit.ly/8A2e1g > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.********************** "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government or NOAA." ********************** Roy Mendelssohn Supervisory Operations Research Analyst NOAA/NMFS Environmental Research Division Southwest Fisheries Science Center 1352 Lighthouse Avenue Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097 e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn at noaa.gov (Note new e-mail address) voice: (831)-648-9029 fax: (831)-648-8440 www: pfeg.noaa.gov "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." "From those who have been given much, much will be expected"
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 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: analisisydecision.es/probando-r-sobre-el-ec2-de-amazon (Unfortunately, it is in Spanish...) Best regards, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta 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? > > 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... > bit.ly/8A2e1g > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >
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