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
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