Simon, Your correct, we've been quite busy with some new features in TPP to leverage cloud computing, and in particular Amazon Web Services. I'm probably the best person to ask as I've been working with it the most. My first question is what in particular are your interests/needs? as we have a number of different projects ongoing. The first is something called the TPP Web Launcher for Amazon, or TWA. Its a web interface intended to simply the process of launching a virtual computer on the cloud with TPP already installed. Its intended for new users of TPP, or existing users that might need better computational resources then they have available. Details about this can be found at http://tools.proteomecenter.org/twa/. (I'm working hard on improving the documentation and examples of usage).
Another resource we have available is we are now supporting amazon machine images (AMI)'s for developers. These are snapshots of systems with TPP installed on them and are used by TWA and our other features. Details about these are available at http://tools.proteomecenter.org/wiki/index.php?title=TPP_Amazon_Machine_Images . There also is a new command line tool I've developed called amztpp. This program hat can be used to leverage the cloud to run one or more peptide identification algorithms against sets of data on the cloud. It uses TPP along with a number of open source algorithms such as X!Tandem, OMSSA, myrimatch, and inspect. This tool handles the logistics of launching compute instances on the cloud, uploading databases and mzML/mzXML files to these instances, and downloading the results. Its not packaged yet with TPP but is available from the same source tree at sourceforge as TPP. I'm currently working on a tutorial for its usage and more documentation but the starting page is available at http://tools.proteomecenter.org/wiki/index.php?title=TPP_CLOUD_AMZTPP. And lastly, we're starting to look into developing some new features for the cloud directly into the petunia web interface of TPP. We're excited about these new features -- but we are just starting on the development. -Joe On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Simon Michnowicz <[email protected] > wrote: > Dear Group > last year at HUPO I heard mention that the TPP was being developed to > run on a cloud infrastructure (Amazon). I was wondering what the > progress of this was, and how it might work for users. > Thanks > Simon Michnowicz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "spctools-discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spctools-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss?hl=en.
