Satish Balay <ba...@mcs.anl.gov> writes: > Hm http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ talks about 'instances' 'small, > medium, large etc..' Not sure what they refer to.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ The CC2 systems are likely most suitable for scientific purposes. > [petsc@localhost ~]$ du -sh petsc-3.3-p6/ > 1.5G petsc-3.3-p6/ > [petsc@localhost ~]$ du -sh petsc-3.3-p6/arch-linux2-c-debug/ > 639M petsc-3.3-p6/arch-linux2-c-debug/ > [petsc@localhost ~]$ du -sh petsc-3.3-p6/externalpackages/ > 676M petsc-3.3-p6/externalpackages/ I don't think the object files or external package source is useful. Linux certainly doesn't need that stuff for debugging. Check the size of the shared libraries for a debugging build. > I was guessing one would use 'ssh' to login to EC2? - so X11 over ssh > might be useful? [perhaps not a desktop] Yeah, I don't know many people that use X11 over ssh in that way, but it's not much effort to offer, so maybe it's worthwhile anyway.
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