Hi Corey,

Thanks for trying out the AMI and providing feedback!

I installed Gnome and VNC in order to provide graphical desktop support.  Hence the large number of packages.  I can also create a slimmer version of this AMI for those who only require terminal access and would prefer to have a limited set of packages installed.

Apart from these changes, do you have any other suggestions?  Many researchers are using our cloud for HPC workloads and have expressed interest in using Scientific Linux.  I would like to make any obvious changes before the AMI is promoted to a broader audience.

Best regards,

Jamie Kinney
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On May 3, 2012, at 2:08 AM, Corey Quinn wrote:


On May 3, 2012, at 1:56 AM, Jamie Kinney wrote:

I have created a Scientific Linux 6.2 x86_64 Amazon EC2 machine image (AMI) and would welcome
your feedback.  The AMI currently resides in the us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) Amazon EC2 region.
If there is enough interest, I could easily publish this AMI to all AWS regions.

The AMI is ami-e2a0058b.

https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#launchAmi=ami-e2a0058b

Feel free to contact me directly with any questions/comments.

Thanks for doing this.

[root@ip-10-196-57-7 ec2-user]# rpm -qa |wc -l
622

Looks a bit heavy from my side-- most instances I tend to spin up hover between 200-300 packages installed.  Is this by design?

I guess my real question becomes "What's the intended use case for this AMI?"

-- Corey