Dear Charles, I very much appreciate your effort towards a Debian-Med cloud. A major pity to my perception is that I cannot just jump in and share your nodes. This social computing would be the direct extension of our social packaging. I mean, I could, if you granted me access, but then we would soon wonder about who would have to pay just how much.
What came to my mind is the szenario in that we use "common" grid technologies to access that Amazon (or another) cloud and hereby share the cloned instances. Please be aware that there is an Open Source reimplementation of the Amazon services at http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/, so we could even bring our and other's infrastructure under a single hood. The infrastructure to do such an grid infrastructure on grids with some billing on top is currently emerging, so until that is prepared, everyone needs to continue with one's own cloned instances. But it would be lovely if we could formulate something to work towards. Dreaming along, we'd form some abstract unit (a society of some sort that is allowed to have some money by itself) and offer a series of cloned machines to a couple of users. When that society needs more computers, then it dynamically adds nodes to such a virtual clusters. When jobs have finished, the nodes disappear again. One could have a very few machines always online to reduce latency, though. Are there others on this list backing such an approach up? Best, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
