I wonder if its possible to get these AMI's running on a private or hybrid local cloud service ?
this makes me think it is.. .. http://linux.blogs.com.np/2010/04/05/how-to-move-a-virtual-machine-from-ec2-to-virtualbox-or-kvm/ On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to point out this paper in case y'all have not seen it: > > http://ged.msu.edu/papers/2012-diginorm/ > > In particular see here for instructions on running the code yourself, > on Amazon's web services: > > http://ged.msu.edu/angus/diginorm-2012/pipeline-notes.html > > The short story is that the Amazon virtual machine images and public > data storage allow you to run the exact analysis used for the figures > in the paper. > > Starcluster [1] and the IPython notebook and parallel machinery [2] > makes it much easier to use Amazon clusters for this purpose. > > According to the author, setting this up was relatively easy: > > http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/apr-12/replication-i.html > > My question was - what implication does this have for sites dedicated > to data storage? Is practical data storage going to have to live in > the same network as the cloud CPUs on which we run the analysis? And > will the data storage have to include virtual machine images? > > Thanks for any thoughts, > > Matthew > > [1] STAR: Cluster - http://web.mit.edu/star/cluster/ > [2] IPython - http://ipython.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >
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