Presumably these images sit somewhere directly on the Amazon EC2 (and are never brought home to ANL or anywhere else) so storing them and "moving them" is not an issue? Doesn't anyone using Amazon EC2 have to deal with the fact that the Linux image is big? Barry On Jul 9, 2013, at 2:34 PM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote:

On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Barry Smith wrote:

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Available for cloud computing on Amazon EC2 with preloaded images.

Last I tried to create a PETSc VM [locally - not amazon] - the linux image was a few GB - and PETSc part another couple of GB.

[my image is curently at 8.3G - with perhaps a cleaned up image at 5.4G]

I'm not sure if its practical to use Amazon EC2 at that disk usage requirements.

Satish