4 hours of 2x m4.2xlarge worked for two sessions of 15 people each, so about $2 total.
--titus On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:30:01AM +0100, Leighton Pritchard wrote: > Thanks Titus, > > Do you have an estimate of what the total AWS cost was for the session? (To > help us convince sources of financial support???) > > Cheers, > > L. > > > On 9 Aug 2017, at 01:32, C. Titus Brown <ctbr...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I put this together for a tutorial last week, and I have to say it went > > amazingly smoothly: > > > > https://github.com/mblmicdiv/course2017/blob/master/exercises/sourmash-setup.md > > > > Briefly, > > > > * I started a big Amazon machine; > > * I installed Docker and built a custom image containing my software of > > interest; > > * I ran multiple containers, one connected to port 8000, one on 8001, etc. > > and gave each student a different port; > > * students could connect in and use the Terminal program in Jupyter to > > execute commands, and could upload/download files via the Jupyter console > > interface; > > * in theory I could have used notebooks too, but for this I didn???t have > > need. > > > > I am aware that JupyterHub can probably do all of this including manage the > > containers, but I???m still a bit shy of diving into that; this was fairly > > straightforward, gave me disposable containers that were isolated for each > > individual student, and worked almost flawlessly. Should be easy to do > > with RStudio too. > > > > Other write-ups to do similar things with your favorite setup would be > > great! > > > > best, > > ???titus > > > > p.s. the actual tutorial that students ran was here: > > https://github.com/mblmicdiv/course2017/blob/master/exercises/sourmash.md > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss > > -- > Leighton Pritchard > leightonpritch...@mac.com > gpg/pgp:0xDECACFFC > > > -- C. Titus Brown, ctbr...@ucdavis.edu _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
