Amazon’s Grid on Demand
Amazon are pioneering a rent-a-grid service, called EC2 which looks extremely interesting. I hope to spend some time playing with it this weekend - sounds great for distributed Erlang testing!
Posted by Luke Flemmer in Erlang, Functional Programming, Grid, HPC, Technology /
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August 24th, 2007 at 2:00 am
Luke — It’s also great for sitricuted GigaSpaces testing…
We’ve created a public AMI (Amazon Machine Image) for running GigaSpaces-based apps on EC2. As we are partners with you guys you might find it interesting.
Here is the link to the AMI: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?categoryID=101&externalID=927
And here’s a paper with detailed instructions of how to run it:
http://www.gigaspaces.com/EC2/GigaSpaces_Amazon_EC2.pdf
Geva
August 24th, 2007 at 2:02 am
Oops.. In my comment above I meant to write “distributed”, not “sitricuted”…
August 24th, 2007 at 2:42 am
Scaling Stateful Applications on Amazon EC2…
A lot of people have been writing about how cool the Amazon EC2 service is — and it is. On his blog, Mike Nicholls does a particularly good job of explaining the advantages EC2 gives to start-ups and entrepreneurs in…
August 25th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Geva, sounds interesting; will check out your AMI.
August 26th, 2007 at 8:17 am
I’ve been on the waiting list for quite a while, but still no joy. You need an S3 account in place before they’ll consider you BTW. They store your images there, a great piece of cross-sell…
This form of computing substrate is the future of computing!
August 26th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
That’s strange, I was able to get set up in a day, and got an image up and running this weekend.