AWSAC documentation

Contents:

• 0 Abstract

• 1 Introduction

• 2 What are Amazon Web Services?
  • 2.1 Simple Storage (S3)
  • 2.2 Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)
  • 2.3 Simple DB

• 3 Why Amazon Web Services for ATLAS Computing?
  • 3.1 Why Cloud Computing with virtual machines?
  • 3.2 Why Amazon Web Services?
  • 3.3 A profitable mixture - AWSAC’s main motivation

• 4 Understand and control AWS
  • 4.1 Manage all services via HTTP
    • 4.1.1 Example message pairs
    • 4.1.2 Authentification and security
    • 4.1.3 Using the API for own applications
  • 4.2 Understand and control S3
    • 4.2.1 Manage and monitor S3 with S3Fox
  • 4.3 Understand and control EC2
    • 4.3.1 Components and nomenclature
    • 4.3.2 Manage and monitor EC2

• 5 The job system: how AWSACtools work
  • 5.1 Job system requirements
  • 5.2 The AWSACtools job system
    • 5.2.1 Basics
    • 5.2.2 Detailed description
  • 5.3 How to use the AWSACtools job system
    • 5.3.1 Build job session information files
    • 5.3.2 Detailled awsac-session manual
    • 5.3.3 An example run - event generation
    • 5.3.4 The job system from the instances point of view

• 6 Creating an AMI for AWSAC from scratch
  • 6.1 Prerequisites
    • 6.1.1 Choosing Scientific Linux 4
    • 6.1.2 Two different ways to create an AMI
  • 6.2 Set up a Scientific Linux VM for an AMI
    • 6.2.1 Preparation
    • 6.2.2 Installing Scientific Linux
    • 6.2.3 Configure the system for EC2
  • 6.3 Bundle, upload and register the AMI
    • 6.3.1 Bundle
    • 6.3.2 Upload
    • 6.3.3 Register
  • 6.4 Run, optimize and rebundle the AMI on EC2
    • 6.4.1 Run and connect
    • 6.4.2 Optimize
    • 6.4.3 Rebundle, upload, register
  • 6.5 Modify the AMI for AWSACtools

• 7 How to create an ATLAS Software Release EBS snapshot
  • 7.1 Preparation
  • 7.2 Install and configure ATLAS Software Release
  • 7.3 Build the snapshot

• 8 Conclusion and Outlook