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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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@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. ********************** "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.mendelss...@noaa.gov (Note new e-mail address) voice: (831)-648-9029 fax: (831)-648-8440 www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." "From those who have been given much, much will be expected" ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
