User_Using your own compute workers

In these instructions, we guide you step-by-step to create your own "compute worker", that is a server to which submissions of participants to your challenge will be sent to be executed (if you organize a challenge with code submission). First, we will explain to you how to create a virtual machine on AWS. Skip this step if you are using your on local server or other computational resources. Then we will explain how to hook up this server to a "queue". Finally, we will explain how to assign that queue to your competition.

Setting up a server as compute worker

First you need to have access to a server connected to the Internet having an IP address and into which you can remote login via ssh. If you do not have one, you need to create one. We provide instructions for creating Ubuntu Virtual machines (VM):

• Creating a Windows Azure Ubuntu VM
• Creating an AWS Ubuntu VM

Creating an AWS instance

Create an account on AWS and log into the console. From there click "Launch Instance"

Choose an Amazon Machine Image. Ubuntu would work.

Choose a configuration. The default will work.

Review the instance and launch.

Select a key pair or create a new one (save the .pem in a safe place or in you key ring).

Worker queues

See also the FAQ of See4c where docker usage is provided.