Rough tutorial on how to run on picloud ...

zipline_picloud

# Follow pre-reqs to setup picloud
http://docs.picloud.com/prereqs.html

# Create a new environment using Python 2.7 - Ubuntu Precise 12.04 
# Use the environment name below in _env 
# Precise includes many required dependencies http://www.picloud.com/docs/base_environment/3/installed/
http://docs.picloud.com/environment.html#environment-create

# SSH to environment and run
sudo pip install zipline
exit
# Be sure to save the environment in the web ui after this step

# The following quickstart.py is the same as the homepage with dma.run(data) removed at the end
python
>>>import cloud
>>>execfile('quickstart.py')
>>>jobid = cloud.call(dma.run, data, _env='Zipline', _type='f2')
>>> print cloud.status(jobid)
done
>>> print cloud.result(jobid)
<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
DatetimeIndex: 2268 entries, 1993-01-04 21:00:00 to 2001-12-31 21:00:00
Data columns:
capital_used               2268  non-null values
cumulative_capital_used    2268  non-null values
ending_cash                2268  non-null values
ending_value               2268  non-null values
max_capital_used           2268  non-null values
max_leverage               2268  non-null values
period_close               2268  non-null values
period_open                2268  non-null values
pnl                        2268  non-null values
portfolio_value            2268  non-null values
positions                  2268  non-null values
returns                    2268  non-null values
starting_cash              2268  non-null values
starting_value             2268  non-null values
transactions               2268  non-null values
dtypes: float64(11), object(4)

# What to improve
- Load data into PiCloud first and access data there