Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Notes on running freesurfer on the Amazon Compute Cloud.

Steps:

  1. read User Guide

  2. create an account

  3. use an available Freesurfer public AMI, see Download

Steps to launch

Login at AWS and Enter the AWS Web Console

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Select "Lauch Instance"

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Choose Community AMI

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Type our AMI identifier in the search field

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You can choose Small or High-CPU (check the prices in AWS website), maybe you can start by using Small (US$ 0.085/h at Virginia Datacenters)

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You can keep the defaults in this screen

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Give a Name to your instance

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Create and download a Key for accessing this machine using SSH, save the Key and chmod it to 400

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Select the "quick-start-1" policy for the firewall (TCP 80 and 22 ports will be open), you can create other policies later

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Launch the Instance

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To ssh into the instance you can grab the info by selecting the instance in the AWS Web Console and selecting connect. I'll see a screen like this:

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AmazonCloud (last edited 2011-11-11 09:52:36 by PedroOliveira)