AmazonEC2

OpenSees can run sequentially and in Parallel on the resrces provided by Amazon EC2. Once the process is set up initially, the running of the applications is trivial (6 commands from the terminal and you could be running a parallel application on a remote Aamzon EC2 cluster of a few thousand nodes for a few dollars an hour .. and you get free hours through the education program if you are a student or educator. http://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/

The following are the 6 commands you would issue from your terminal window to run the file Example.tcl on a 100 node Amazon Cluster and obtain the results that the scipts created in the results folder back.

starcluser start smallcluster
starcluster put Example.tcl
starcluster sshmaster smallcluster
mpiexec -n 100 OpenSees Example.tcl
starcluster get /results /root/results
starcluster terminate smallcluster