On 2012-10-27, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I wonder if anyone tried building an Amazon EC2 AMI with Sage loaded. >> EC2 service has a free tier, which is a bit smallish configuration, >> but perhaps one can still fit Sage in? > > I compiled Sage from source last year on their free EC2 of that time. > It took over a week, due to extremely limited RAM (and maybe slow hard > drives for swap). Using a non-free version is a lot better, as Jeff > Barr -- the Lead Web Services Evangelist at Amazon.com -- talks about > in this blog post entitled "Building Sage (Open Source Math) on Amazon > EC2": > > http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=1595
Did you try getting Sage into "Amazon in Education" program, as suggested by that blogpost? They aren't saying what they offer. We might have potential uses of it here, although our profile isn't so high... > > William > >> >> Dima -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
