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Creating a New Elastic Compute Cloud
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Instance for Partek® Flow® Software
Note: This guide assumes all items necessary for the Amazon elastic Comput Clout (EC2) instance does not exist, such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), subnets, and security groups, thus their creation is covered as well.
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The new instance will now boot. Use the left navigation bar and click on Instances. Click the pencil icon and assign the instance the name Partek Flow Server
Enabling External access to the Partek Flow
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Elastic Compute Cloud Instance
The server should be assigned a fixed IP address. To do this, click on Elastic IPs on the left navigation menu from the EC2 management console.
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$ ssh -i Flow-Testing.pem ubuntu@elastic.ip
Attaching the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume for Partek Flow
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Data Storage
Attach, format, and move the ubuntu home directory onto the large ST1 EBS volume. All Partek Flow data will live in this volume. Consult the AWS EC2 documentation for further information about attaching EBS volumes to your instance.
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Done! Partek Flow is ready to use.
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Amazon Web Services Support
After the EC2 instance is provisioned, we are happy to assist with setting up Partek Flow or other issues you encounter with the usage of Partek Flow. The quickest way to receive help is to allow us remote access to your server by sending us Flow-Key.pem and amending the SSH rule for Flow-SG to include access from IP 97.84.41.194 (Partek HQ). We recommend sending us Flow-Key.pem via secure means. The easiest way to do this is with the following command:
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We also provide live assistance via GoTo meeting or TeamViewer if you are uncomfortable with us accessing your EC2 instance directly. Before contacting us, please run $ ./partek_flow/flowstatus.sh to send us logs and other information that will assist us with your support request.
General
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Recommendations
With newer EC2 instance types, it is possible to change the instance type of an already deployed Partek Flow EC2 server. We recommend doing several rounds of benchmarks with production-sized workloads and evaluate if the resources allocated to your Partek Flow server are sufficient. You may find that reducing resources allocated to the Partek Flow server may come with significant cost savings, but can cause UI responsiveness and job run-times to reach unacceptable levels. Once you have found an instance type that works, you may wish to use reserved instance pricing which is significantly cheaper than on-demand instance pricing. Reserved instances come with 1 or 3-year usage terms. Please see the EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace to sell or purchase existing reserved instances at reduced rates.
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