[Bio-Linux] Problem booting installation DVD - biolinux 6

[Tim Booth]

More to the point, Martin, how do you get an EC2 instance to boot from a
USB drive?

To update this list about progress on Cloud Bio-Linux, I'm not
officially funded to work on the project but I'm very excited by it and
was recently at a CodeFest in Boston where I joined the main developers
and we made a lot of progress.  One thing that became clear is that the
development needs to focus around the configuration management - ie. the
script that takes a Vanilla Ubuntu and turns it into Bio-Linux - rather
than just trying to make a static AMI image.  We're using a system
called Fabric to manage the configuration.  The advantage of this
approach is that one recipe will work for EC2, Eucalyptus, VMWare, Xen,
or a regular old server - anything that's running a basic Ubuntu and has
a net connection.  You'll just need to run a couple of commands and the
machine will grab the latest spec from the net and Bio-Linux-ify itself.

Of course, we can and still will release pre-made AMIs - I see it as
something akin to providing source and binaries for a piece of software.

There is a developer list linked here:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/jcvicloud/index.php

But I'll keep this list posted on any major announcements.

Cheers,

TIM

On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 16:41 +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
> On 16/07/10 15:55, Martin Gollery wrote:
> > Or set up an instance on EC2, then you can run it from anywhere!
> 
> Hello, Martin.
> 
> Yes, in principle, and as long as you can afford to download your work 
> because Amazon make their money by charging much more to retrieve data 
> than they do to store it...
> 
> Seriously, though, I'm setting up Eucalyptus at RINH to try out the AMI 
> that Tim et al. are working on with the JVCI. I think 'private' clouds 
> compatible with EC2/S3 etc. are the way forward. The economics of using 
> AWS does make sense if you almost never use a computer, but the more you 
> use a computer the less economic it is to rent a share of one from Amazon.
> 
> Eucalyptus is well supported by Ubuntu server edition:
> 
>    http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/eucalyptus
> 
> I'd be interested to hear from anyone else doing this sort of thing?
> 
> Bye,
> 
>    Tony.

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Tim Booth <tbooth at ceh.ac.uk>
NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre 
at CEH Wallingford
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