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

[Kipp Martin]

Hi Stuart:

> 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.

Thank you very much for doing this! I am an OS project manager and will 
put work on this in the next few days.

Cheers,


> 
> 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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