I was wondering if companies using COIN-OR would fund an Amazon EC2-based service with COIN-OR Optimization Services enabled in order to provide a service like the well-known NEOS server. This, along with Stuart's AMIs, would be very handy for people willing to embrace cloud technologies.<br>
<br>I've seen at <a href="http://www.optimizationservices.org/">http://www.optimizationservices.org/</a> (Services section) that COIN-OR OS authors are already after this goal so maybe this idea can be soon realized.<br>
<br clear="all">Dani.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Kipp Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kmartin@chicagobooth.edu">kmartin@chicagobooth.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Ted:<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> This sounds like a great idea. I'm not aware of anything official in<br>
> the works. Could we get more COIN projects up there? Perhaps there is<br>
> even a way to hook up to this through Optimization Services.<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, I would like to look at the OS aspect. If we could put the OS<br>
<br>
OSSolverService<br>
<br>
on the server then through a single common interface we could access the<br>
COIN-OR solvers<br>
<br>
Bonmin<br>
Cbc<br>
Clp<br>
Couenne<br>
DyLP<br>
Ipopt<br>
SYMPHONY<br>
<br>
and send MPS, OSiL, and nl files. We could also leverage off of the OS<br>
option and solver result interfaces.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
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><br>
> Cheers,<br>
><br>
> Ted<br>
><br>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Stuart Mitchell<br>
> <<a href="mailto:s.mitchell@auckland.ac.nz">s.mitchell@auckland.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Following the new release of Gurobi (now with added cloud computing) I<br>
>> thought it would be nice to add Coin to the cloud. I did this mostly because<br>
>> I want to experiment with pulp-or (python LP/MILP modelling language) being<br>
>> able to use solvers on EC2.<br>
>><br>
>> So there now is an Amazon Machine Image ami-5493703d that should be<br>
>> available on to the public.<br>
>><br>
>> It is clp, cbc installed on an ubuntu server accessible through ssh<br>
>> (username ubuntu). You will need to logon to aws to access it and pay $0.10<br>
>> an hour (or part thereof) to boot up a copy of instance of this image.<br>
>><br>
>> Is there something official in the works for this or should I continue<br>
>> nutting it out for myself.<br>
>><br>
>> Stu<br>
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