Re: [sage-devel] Sage and Amazon EC2?

2010-04-17 Thread William Stein
On Saturday, April 17, 2010, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:02 PM, Tom Boothby wrote: > > > If this is really as easy (and cheap) as it sounds, I think we should > consider running the public notebook in the cloud.  I wonder if > there's an educational discount, grant money for thi

Re: [sage-devel] Sage and Amazon EC2?

2010-04-17 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:02 PM, Tom Boothby wrote: If this is really as easy (and cheap) as it sounds, I think we should consider running the public notebook in the cloud. I wonder if there's an educational discount, grant money for this, or both? As far as I understand, there's a requirement to

Re: [sage-devel] Sage and Amazon EC2?

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Daly
I haven't used Sage on EC2 but I have done Axiom builds there (about a 1.5 hour compile/test). Its simple to configure a machine. They have hundreds of prebuilt instances. I used an ubuntu instance, ssh'ed to it, added a few packages, did a build and test. Worked as expected with no problems. If

Re: [sage-devel] Sage and Amazon EC2?

2010-04-16 Thread Tom Boothby
If this is really as easy (and cheap) as it sounds, I think we should consider running the public notebook in the cloud. I wonder if there's an educational discount, grant money for this, or both? On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Dan Drake wrote: > The current thread about using the notebook ser

[sage-devel] Sage and Amazon EC2?

2010-04-16 Thread Dan Drake
The current thread about using the notebook server with classes of students made me think about the possibility of using Amazon EC2 instances to do the computing for a notebook server. I haven't used EC2 and don't know too much about it, but the idea seem to be that you can spin up a web-accessibl