[okfn-discuss] Practical reproducible science; implications for data storage

Wed Apr 11 07:38:24 UTC 2012

I wonder if its possible to get these AMI's running on a private or hybrid
local cloud service ?

this makes me think it is.. ..
http://linux.blogs.com.np/2010/04/05/how-to-move-a-virtual-machine-from-ec2-to-virtualbox-or-kvm/

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to point out this paper in case y'all have not seen it:
>
> http://ged.msu.edu/papers/2012-diginorm/
>
> In particular see here for instructions on running the code yourself,
> on Amazon's web services:
>
> http://ged.msu.edu/angus/diginorm-2012/pipeline-notes.html
>
> The short story is that the Amazon virtual machine images and public
> data storage allow you to run the exact analysis used for the figures
> in the paper.
>
> Starcluster [1] and the IPython notebook and parallel machinery [2]
> makes it much easier to use Amazon clusters for this purpose.
>
> According to the author, setting this up was relatively easy:
>
> http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/apr-12/replication-i.html
>
> My question was - what implication does this have for sites dedicated
> to data storage?  Is practical data storage going to have to live in
> the same network as the cloud CPUs on which we run the analysis?  And
> will the data storage have to include virtual machine images?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts,
>
> Matthew
>
> [1] STAR: Cluster - http://web.mit.edu/star/cluster/
> [2] IPython - http://ipython.org/
>
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