Hi Dan, I have recently created an AMI for running python processes.
I recommend using the ubuntu server ami's provided by http://alestic.com/. Alestic is a well known provider of public AMI images. I think this is exactly the place you want to start from; anything you need is an apt-get or easy_install away. >From the moment you launch an instance, you are literally minutes away from being able to run a computation with Python. I also recommend the FireFox plugin called ElasticFox for interfacing the AWS api. It is a lot easier than the command line api tools! I left some rough notes on my AMI creation/setup process here: http://wiki.github.com/codenode/codenode/backend-demonstration-ec2-image The notes include the ami-id of my resulting image, which you should be able to launch if you wish. If you are interested, I can dive into more detail on how I set up the os/python environment, etc. The image I created is used as the Codenode live public notebook backend: http://live.codenode.org/ You can create an account, login, start a Notebook, import Numpy and run any code you want right now! Hope this is useful, Dorian I cross-posted this to codenode-devel, sympy, and sage-notebook; I think this topic could be of interest to others on those lists. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Dan Yamins <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm gearing up to build an Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) for use in doing > Numpy/Scipy computations on the Amazon EC2 cloud. > > I'm writing to ask if anyone has any advice for which (if any) publicly > available AMI I should start with. > > If any one has any specific AMI's that they think are good bases from which > to modify -- or really, any other advice about using numpy/scipy on EC2 -- > I'd love to know. > > Beyond that, even if you don't know which AMI to recommend (or even what an > AMI is), I still would like advice about which Linux flavor to use. I've > had some experience with Mac OSX (and, with David Cornapeau's help over this > list, I was able to build 64-bit Scipy with Python 2.6!), but I really know > nothing about what the build process is like on Linux (and most likely, > unless someone recommends a good AMI with optimized BLAS/LAPACK already > built, I'm going to have to built it from scratch). So, should I use > Ubuntu or Debian or Fedora or Centos or ...? > > Thanks! > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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