On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Not really. Several EC2 reps came by my office and talked with me about Sage, math research, and https://salv.us, and encouraged me to apply for that. But then they also told me they would just give me free credits for my EC2 account right off, so I didn't apply. I responded to their email offering me free credits, and they never responded back to me. I had messed up and waited about two months before responding to their email, so maybe the person I had written to had quit in the meantime; I don't know. One thing -- when I built sage on an EC2 free instance, I left it on for a while, and noticed that I *did* get billed for bandwidth. So watch out. > They aren't saying what they offer. We might have potential uses of it > here, although our profile isn't so high... If you want to put together an application with me, I'm interested. William > >> >> 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. > > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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.
