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

[Ted Ralphs]

There is a distribution containing most of the COIN projects,
including all those that can be accessed through OS and OS itself,
called CoinAll. It has not been well-publicized, but I will be trying
to give it more publicity over the coming weeks. The repository is
here:

https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/CoinBinary/CoinAll

and the latest release is

https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/CoinBinary/CoinAll/releases/1.3.0

If you do

./configure --prefix=/usr/local (or /usr if you want)
make
make install

it will install everything nicely in $prefix/bin, $prefix/lib,
$prefix/include/coin, $prefix/share/doc/coin. We have spent a lot of
time making sure the install is clean, etc. so it should be easy.

Cheers,

Ted

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Stuart Mitchell
<s.mitchell at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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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Dr. Ted Ralphs
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