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

[Stuart Mitchell]

I have installed CoinAll on ami-5493703d (search for 
coin-or/CoinAll.manifest.xml). This would be a great start for a OS 
server image. All someone that knew how to use OS services would need is 
to do is set up a daemon that started on boot and whatever else is needed.

This http://www.bonsai.com/wiki/howtos/ec2/ec2_ami_snapshot/ is the best 
webpage I have found describing how to setup an image.

Stu

Ted Ralphs wrote:
> 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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University of Auckland
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