[R] R on amazon's EC2 "cloud"?

[Roy Mendelssohn]

Go to:

http://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?
> 
> 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
> 
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