Amazon released EC2 - Cluster GPU Instances and I wonder what's your experience with it? Is it stable, does it require a lot of time to install new drivers, SDK etc. before you deployed your CUDA code?
I haven't yet deployed a gpu instance, but I can tell you that the OS image already has the drivers setup for you.
Now in terms of installing CUDA, and getting your code ran thats anotother stody. If you haven't tried EC2 at all then I can tell you on a normal instance - I can install gcc/g++ and svn; setup a repository and have my code run in 5-10 minutes.
EDIT: I was looking through the documentation and found this: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Cluster_GPUs_Install_Driver.html#d0e18924 this talks about reinstalling or updating the NVIDIA drivers
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Is it possible to install Greenplum on Mac. I can only see database servers for SuSE and RedHat linux on this page.
I am having trouble to get started.Though i have tried sandbox VM, that works fine.
Greenplum is not bundled for Mac as a Pivotal distribution. Many developers, though, build and test Greenplum on Macs and most of the development stations used at Pivotal are Macs.
If the build instructions do not work for you there is a wiki page for building on that environment.
I'm looking on ways to deploy a ruby on rails 4 app built on windows 7 box. I'm looking to use Heroku at the moment.
Can you please provide any pointers regarding heroku or any other easier and cheaper deployment options available out there..
Any issues That I may face due to the difference in OS in the dev environment (windows) and the deployment environment (linux on heroku)?
This is my first professional app, so any pointers will be helpful for now and also for future applications that I may work on.
Also what is the more preferred OS for ruby on rails development ?
Thanks in Advance!
You probably won't face any issues with deployment on Heroku. Heroku is the easiest option out there (albeit one of the priciest once you're off the free tier)
What's more likely to happen on Windows is that you'll find it hard to build certain gems for development, and cutting edge releases will probably not work well.
Much better to pick up a Linux distro for this.
You can also check out bluemix , which is also free for small projects. I know Heroku is not particularly windows friendly, not sure if bluemix is any better in that reguard, but it is extremely easy to deploy to.
Heroku has set of tools called heroku toolbelt, that makes easy to deploy apps to heroku. you can download heroku tool belt for windows from here
Generally you should be able to port any rails app you develop in windows to Linux/Mac, how ever since the ruby/rails community is largely built around Linux/Mac, responses/options to your issues regarding the rails apps will be low. and there are some gems which doesn't work on windows at all. So its best to move to either Mac/Linux if you are planing to continue on rails.
Once you come to Linux/mac world there are lots of providers much cheaper than heroku like DigitelOcean, however heroku would be the easiest for a beginner I believe.
HTH
One strategy you could try is to do the following:
Set up a VirtualBox or VMWare VM running Linux (Ubuntu would be a good candidate if you are not used to Linux).
Get your project into the VM and get the bundle install and everything working in Linux, you will probably find you need to make some changes in your Gemfile if you have anything windows specific there.
Install the Heroku tool-belt on the Linux VM and install to Heroku from there.
Taking the Windows / Linux transition pain on your local machine will make it much easier than Windows direct to Heroku.
I have been learning how to use Vagrant and can successfully launch linux instances in AWS using Vagrant, but I cannot launch Windows and cannot find any resources online that help in this particular situation. I'm really looking for some more documentation and/or a better explanation of the differences since there is not very much official documentation.
I am trying to setup YouTrack and TeamCity on a VM with less than 1GB running on Windows. There will be a very low usage (both users and requests). This is a POC environment, if it works I may push it onto an extra-small or small Azure or Amazon VM instance.
Anyone has got this to work?
PS: I understand that this is way below JetBrains recommended settings.
I have a running YouTrack instance with only 256MB RAM allocated (never tried a smaller value), on an old server with only 1GB RAM, under Debian. It feels pretty responsive, but I'm the only user so far :D
If you're using Windows XP, it might work ok, if Team City would run with only 256MB RAM.
Is there a specific need for using TeamCity, or you need it only for integrating YouTrack with Git/Mercurial/SVN?
I tried installing WARs under TomCat and I could not get TeamCity to play nice in TomCat 7. I ended up using the out of the box installers provided by JetBrains and all worked fine.
I have resolved same problem in the next way:
Installed application on VM with more than 1 GB memory.
Configured my application.
Reduced size(memory) of the VM to 700 Mb available
As application was used JetBrains YouTrack 6.0 with 250 issues and 3 users. It was failing to install from msi package on VM with 700 Mb of memory. After processing mentioned steps it works fine.
I've developed some Java applications and wrapped them in exe files, some of them require JDIC files, the apps run on Windows systems, since my PC is all setup for development, it has all the necessary parts, but if a user downloads and runs my apps, they may not work as I thought. So I wonder if there is any place online that I can upload my apps and try to run them in a Windows environment and see if they work in the simulation ?
Frank
Consider using VirtualPC. You can get licensing for free.
Also you can get images from MS site for various versions of Windows to test with - supposedly for browser compatibility but you can use them for other things (which may or may not violate the EULA).
Consider using VMWare Workstation. You can get licensing for free.
You could use Amazon's EC2 instances to get easy access to virtual Windows machines. There is a bit of set up involved, but once you've done that you can spin up new machines easily enough. There are a number of tutorials online.
However, doing it locally with virtual windows instances is going to be even easier. I'd second VMware workstation or player.
You can download trial Windows server images directly from Microsoft for free.