2014 dust off

got things working again after the ASpace/ansible affair

see commits/README for notes on resetting the epic using `--launch-only` option that spins up a new instance

brought code formatting up to PEP8

added `--generate-all` to restart epic, but the spot market price started to get volatile, so I had to add an `--ondemand` option to become immune from the spot market long enough to run the job (may take more than 24 hours)

![screen shot 2014-09-30 at 9 20 23 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/227374/4470272/ae6a7a34-4922-11e4-8feb-8fb6aed8c7b5.png)

may need to `sudo atrm 1` when using `--generate-all` and  `--launch-only` to give things more than 36 hours (the machine will be set to `shutdown -r now` in 36 hours if it is not terminated my major tom.