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AWS GPU Image notes #52

Closed BaronKhan closed 7 years ago

BaronKhan commented 7 years ago

I feel there should be more information on how to use the AWS GPU Image provided.

The readme should mention that the image is located in the Amazon AWS Marketplace as a Community AMI, on the N. Virginia region (I defaulted to Ohio and then switched to London, so spent ages trying to find the image; I only found it thanks to this issue: https://github.com/HPCE/hpce-2017-cw3/issues/19).

I think you also have to SSH to a different user account name instead of ubuntu, which was the account name used for the standard ubuntu servers (in CW2). I could only ssh using ssh -A -i ... admin@..., (I tried using the root account but it just tells you to use admin instead).

If this is explained in future coursework, then just ignore this (but it doesn't seem to be mentioned in CW4), but it would be great to have a small footnote about this somewhere.

m8pple commented 7 years ago

Yes, those are good points - I think I always choose N. Virginia, so hadn't thought about that aspect. I'll update the readme.

Thanks.