[OSGeo-Discuss] Any high performance (linux-)OSGeo workstation to rent?

[Dheeraj Chand]

Nikos,

Amazon is giving away a year of free EC2 services. You should be able to
spin up an Ubuntu box, install R, geo stuff, etc., and go to town on it.

Enjoy!

-dx

On 1/6/11 10:11 AM, "Nikos Alexandris" <nik at nikosalexandris.net> wrote:

>Greetings to the list.
>
>I need to process a few data.frames() in R [1] (18.000 observations, 6
>variables and some grouping factors) using the mrpp() function [2]
>implemented 
>in the R-package vegan [3]. I just posted something short about it on
>grass-
>stats [4].
>
>It is a heavy process for my home machine and I need to get it done ASAP.
>The 
>question related to the list is:
>
>does out there exist an on-line service providing access to high
>performance 
>OSGeo, preferably linux-based, workstation(s)/cluster(s)? Something to
>rent 
>and use for a short period of time?
>
>I imagine for example to get an ssh account, establish a connection,
>upload 
>the data of interest, do the process, save and download the results and,
>finally, pay for the time?
>
>Thank you for your attention and apologies if the post does not fit in to
>the 
>list's topics.
>
>Nikos
>
>---
>[1] <http://www.r-project.org/>
>[2] <http://cc.oulu.fi/~jarioksa/softhelp/vegan/html/mrpp.html>
>[3] <http://vegan.r-forge.r-project.org/>
>[4] 
><http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-stats/2011-January/001309.html>
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