[Coin-discuss] Coin Cloud (using coin with Amazon Web Services)

[Stuart Mitchell]

Its quite trivial to set things up.

I basically,

1. launched a clean copy of ubuntu server
2. checked out cbc from subversion
3. configure, make install etc
4. put links in /usr/bin to clp and cbc
5. published the image.

If there is a script to build a complete coin distribution (maybe from 
some test bot??)
It would be easy to add more projects.

I guess what we need is a naming convention ie osname-project-version 
for the ami's. To create storage in aws you upload to a s3 bucket, and I 
guess I own the coin-or name there now (but would be happy to give it up)

I like the the idea of OS services integration as that would be a cool 
way to make it really a piece of cake for someone to set up an 
optimisation server. Some one who knows what they are doing sets up a 
server and opens the right ports, and people that need one just use the 
image.



Stu

Ted Ralphs wrote:
> This sounds like a great idea. I'm not aware of anything official in
> the works. Could we get more COIN projects up there? Perhaps there is
> even a way to hook up to this through Optimization Services.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ted
> 
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Stuart Mitchell
> <s.mitchell at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Following the new release of Gurobi (now with added cloud computing) I
>> thought it would be nice to add Coin to the cloud. I did this mostly because
>> I want to experiment with pulp-or (python LP/MILP modelling language) being
>> able to use solvers on EC2.
>>
>> So there now is an Amazon Machine Image ami-5493703d that should be
>> available on to the public.
>>
>> It is clp, cbc installed on an ubuntu server accessible through ssh
>> (username ubuntu). You will need to logon to aws to access it and pay $0.10
>> an hour (or part thereof) to boot up a copy of instance of this image.
>>
>> Is there something official in the works for this or should I continue
>> nutting it out for myself.
>>
>> Stu
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