Deploying to 3rd party cloud: Any advice?

[vilhauer]

Hi,

I wanted to find out if anyone has experience deploying all/some of quantlib to a 3rd party cloud infrastructure.  I am looking at running a linux-based system on amazon web services, mosso (rackspace), or joyent.  

I had also thought about Google App Engine, but as of this winter, one could only use native Python functions, (no swig-bindings, I believe).  

I saw Eric's post about his grid project which he generously shared.

http://www.nabble.com/QuantLib-Grid-Computing-td22390138.html

If anyone has other tips, advice to share, it would be very welcome.

Thanks,

Tom

[Bojan Nikolic]

Hi Tom,

I think Eric's approach is the way to do it, i.e., dividing the
overall problem into units of computations of "PVs" and distributing
those units of work onto the grid, and probably it would be worth
re-using the serialisation code at least.

The couple of small items I would add is:

* When I was last involved in a project similar to this, we used a
  commercial grid software vendor and I didn't think it was worth it
  in the end, I would stick to an open source system like Sun's.

* You probably want to have the machine distributes the work sitting
  on Amazon's network too, i.e., use one of Amazon's instances for
  that. Therefore you will need two layers of communications.

Best,
Bojan

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