Satish Balay <[email protected]> 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.