On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Barry Smith wrote:

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