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

[Richard Jones]

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?

Is it possible to get machines with larger amounts of memory?
Unfortunately there is one step in our analysis which requires more
than 1.75GB of RAM ...

And finally, when is it coming out of "limited beta"!??

Rich.

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