Dear all, I am aware of at least two efforts to prepare images for the Amazon services to help the bioinformatics community. And I wish us to be at the front here. From the packaging aspect we are, but we have no (project-)funds to pay for the storage of the Image at Amazon for instance. In a way this may be fortunate, since this opens our eyes for alternatives.
The alternative I see is to prepare an Eucalyptus server (see http://www.eucalyptus.org) and run it ourselves. We would then invite the various efforts to use that rather than Amazon's services to develop the reference bioinformatics image - well, we all know that it won't be a single big image but rather a collection of images. That site may then become a major source for the practical exchange of concepts for dealing with the packages we prepared. There was a notion to have a server for Debian Med when we did not have a use for it. Does that offer still hold? Would the machine be sufficiently big to accommodate for the demands that several parallel run instances would have (say 8 GB main memory, 200GB disk (we also want some data, right))? Or are here some philanthropic readers on this list to help out? I cannot tell exactly where we will end up with this effort. I could for instance well imagine that we will acquire more such servers over time at different institutes to develop some mixture between a clouds and a grid. We'll see. Many thanks and regards, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
