WormBase-Caltech Weekly Calls

2011 Meetings

SPELL

Raymond and Wen worked on putting on Amazon cloud
SPELL running on Amazon cloud
What next?
Need to be careful about running a cloud instance
Elastic IP? No, not yet
What are the requirements for SPELL? Free instance is currently sufficient
Need more memory for the start-up process
Haven't yet figured out a way to do stress tests
SPELL does not have many users (~500 queries per month)
Free tier available for only 6 months and then gone
Need to determine what the build requirements are (needed for every build/release)
Only want one copy of it (so we aren't paying twice)
Single canonical AMI
First step, firgure out build requirements (need more memory during build?) and runtime requirements
Free instance 2GB memory (upgraded) for build, 600MB memory OK for runtime
What will it take to maintain one of these instances for a year?
Double up SPELL queries with the main WormBase instance on the cloud to consolidate?
How to more fully incorporate SPELL into WormBase?
Integrate SPELL into the new WormBase App? (branding, tracking access)
Running under Apache; Ruby-on-Rails
Could maintain cloud instance for now and see how it will function (and what it will cost) over the year
Better if elastic IP assigned (25 cents/day? Or free once attached to an instance?)
Can it run in a micro-instance? Yes
$175/year for cpu plus disk space and transfer
Switch credit cards (from Raymond's to Caltech)
Follow logs to assess likely costs later on