Run rstan on AWS

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FWIW folks in our group tend to use rstan on AWS with EC2 instances and Docker:

  • start an EC2 instance, exposing any necessary ports in the security group settings (e.g., 8787 for RStudio server, or 8888 for Jupyter notebook)
  • ssh into it
  • (if necessary) install docker
  • then run your Docker container that has an RStudio server instance or Jupyter notebook/lab
  • connect via web browser and do your thing

Here’s an example Dockerfile: https://github.com/mbjoseph/wildfire-extremes/blob/master/Dockerfile

Another good option that would be more straightforward: Louis Aslett’s RStudio AMIs - http://www.louisaslett.com/RStudio_AMI/