Re: Is anyone running NCL on Amazon's EC2 or other cloud computing environment?

From: Bridget Thrasher <bthrasher_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Fri Dec 04 2009 - 14:02:41 MST

Climate models on cloud computing:
http://www.cca08.org/papers/Paper34-Chris-Hill.pdf

In theory, it can be done. Just need to figure out how to run NCL there...

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Dennis Shea <shea@ucar.edu> wrote:

> I am not sure what "the cloud" is.
>
> What limits do you have on your current system
>
> %> limit
>
> Look at "memoryuse"
>
> If you need 8GB of memory and you have 4GB not much you can do.
>
> If you can fit the data into memory BUT you are near the memory limit
> and you start doing computations, then the software [any siftware]
> will need/use additional memory.
>
> Good luck
>
> Bridget Thrasher wrote:
>
>> I keep hitting memory allocation limits and am thinking of moving my
>> computing to the cloud. Has anyone done this successfully?
>>
>> -Bridget
>>
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