[Gllug] Anyone used Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud (grid computing type thingy)?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 04:01:31PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:36:45PM +0100, Doug Winter wrote:
> > Richard Jones wrote:
> > >http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011
> > >
> > >Unfortunately the beta is closed for new registrations right now, but
> > >the project looks brilliant - exactly what we need for our
> > >number-crunching needs.  Has anyone got on the beta?
> > 
> > Yep, we're using it too.  What do you want to know?
> 
> Are the machines all 64-bit?  This is a cast-iron requirement for us.
> 
> Can we use MPI to run jobs across multiple machines?  (Or else how do
> the "instances" interact with each other?)
> 
> How is the S3 storage system accessed? eg. NFS? scp?

HTTP / WebDAV - btw  you can use S3 today - its a separate system from
the EC2 stuff, and open for full use / signup already.

> Is it possible to get machines with larger amounts of memory?

Not that I'm aware of - one size fits all is their approach currently.

Dan.
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