Install compilers, or anything else you need: yum search gfortran, install the desired package, e.g.The VM comes very bare (unlike when you install from a CD) and you need to install all you need manually. When you stop the instance, the disk is stored and you can start the instance later with all your changes preserved, but you are charged for storing the disk.NOTE: when you terminate the instance, the virtual machine including the virtual disk is destroyed.
After you are done, do not forget to terminate or stop your instance from the Instance Actions tab in the AWS Management Console, or your credit card will be charged the hourly rate for the instance forever!.Back in the AWS Management Console, double click on the instance and scroll down to look up the Public DNS, something like X.Y.Z.This will change your ssh identity so save the old file first! Move the downloaded key to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.Keep pressing Continue until you get to launch the virtual machine (called instance).Create and download key pair when prompted to do so. Keep pressing Continue leaving all on defaults.Make sure the Number of Instances is 1 and Instance Type box is Small to avoid surprise charges.Select the Amazon EC2 tab, click Launch instance, select Basic Fedora Core 8, scroll to the bottom, click Continue.You'll need to give them a credit card and verify a phone number. Go to Amazon web services and make an account.gunzip tar xvf gfortran-snwleo-intel-bin.tar -C /. To install gfortran do the following: gunzip tar xvf gfortran-snwleo-intel-bin.tar -C /. See Amazon EC2 pricing and VM instance types for up-to-date details. Download the file and open the download directory in Terminal.
Cluter GPU virtual machines with 22GB memory, 2 Intel Xeon X5570 CPUs (8 cores total) and 2 NVIDIA Tesla Fermi M2950 GPUs, Linux Installing CUDA, cuDNN, caffe and DIGITS on EC2.Virtual machines from 1.7GB with one core 32bit to 68GB with 8 cores 64bit, Linux Fedora 8 or Windows.4 How to store your virtual machine and data.2 Getting started on Amazon EC2 with linux.