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Date: 2016-12-22 11:40:42 +0000 (Thu, 22 Dec 2016)
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--- userguide/trunk/cloud.tex 2016-12-22 02:22:31 UTC (rev 19890)
+++ userguide/trunk/cloud.tex 2016-12-22 11:40:42 UTC (rev 19891)
@@ -27,32 +27,31 @@
\begin{itemize}
\item {\bf zero fixed costs}: you don't buy software licences or server
hardware, just
- pay for the compute time that you use
+ pay for the compute time that you use.
\item {\bf near zero startup time}: in a matter of minutes you can specify,
provision
- and deploy the type of computation that used to take months of planning
-\item {\bf easy in, easy out}: if you try it and don't like it, go elsewhere!
you can
- even take the software with you, it's all open source
+ and deploy the type of computation that used to take months of planning.
+\item {\bf easy in, easy out}: if you try it and don't like it, go elsewhere!
You can
+ even take the software with you; it's all open-source.
\item {\bf someone else takes the admin load}:
- \htlink{http://gate.ac.uk/}{the GATE team} from the
\htlink{http://www.shef.ac.uk/}{University of Sheffield} make sure you're
running the best of breed
- technology for text, search and semantics
+ technology for text, search and semantics.
\item cloud providers' data center managers (we use
\htlink{http://aws.amazon.com/}{Amazon Inc.}) make sure the hardware and
operating platform for your work
- is scaleable, reliable and cheap
+ is scaleable, reliable and cheap.
\end{itemize}
\htlink{http://gate.ac.uk}{GATE} is (and always will be) free, but machine
time,
-training, dedicated support and bespoke development is not. Using GATECloud
+training, dedicated support and bespoke development is not. Using GATE Cloud
you can rent cloud time to process large batches of documents on vast server
farms, or academic clusters. You can push a terabyte of annotated data into an
index server and replicate the data across the world. Or just purchase
training services and support for the various tools in the
\htlink{http://gate.ac.uk/family/}{GATE family}.
-
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\sect[sec:family:cloud-services]{GATE Cloud services: an overview}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-
+%
GATE Cloud offers several types of services:
\begin{itemize}
\item Pre-packaged annotation pipelines such as ANNIE or TwitIE. Individual
@@ -72,17 +71,15 @@
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\sect[sec:family:cloud-competitors]{Comparison with other systems}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-
There are several other text-analysis-as-a-service systems out there
that do some of what we do. Here are some differences:
-
+%
\begin{itemize}
-\item We're the only {\bf open source} solution.
+\item We're the only {\bf open-source} solution.
\item We're the only {\bf customisable solution} we support a
- bring-your-own-annotator option --
- a GATE pipeline -- as well as pre-packaged entity annotation services
- like other systems.
-\item We're the only {\bf end-to-end full lifecycle} solution. We don't just do
+ bring-your-own-annotator option -- a GATE pipeline -- as well as pre-packaged
+ entity annotation services like other systems.
+\item We're the only {\bf end-to-end full-lifecycle} solution. We don't just do
entity extraction -- we do data preparation, inter-annotator agreement,
quality assurance and control, data visualisation, indexing and search of
full text/annotation graph/ontology/instance store, etc. etc. etc.
@@ -95,7 +92,7 @@
\item {\bf Speed}: other systems price per document (we price on processing
time) --
this makes it impossible to compare like with like (do you really want to
compare the processing of individual tweets against 200 page technical
- reports?!). GATECloud is also {\bf heavily optimised for high volumes} -- if
you
+ reports?!). GATE Cloud is also {\bf heavily optimised for high volumes} --
if you
want to do low volumes, you can do them on your netbook.
\item {\bf Community}: we've been here for more than 15 years, and our
community of
{\bf developers, users, third party suppliers} and so on is second to none.
@@ -120,15 +117,15 @@
Once registered and logged in you can browse through the shop
and decided on the services you wish to purchase.
-The shop does not handle money but works instead with vouchers bought from the
+The shop does not handle money but works instead with vouchers bought from the
\htlink{http://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=25\&modid=1\&compid=1}
-{University of Sheffield's on-line shop}. Vouchers are available in multiples
of \textsterling 5,
-the amount you need to purchase will depend upon the services you wish to use.
-Once you are ready to buy time on GATE Cloud create an account with the
-University shop and then buy the appropriate amount credit vouchers. Be sure
to use
-the same email address when buying vouchers as when registering for a GATE
Cloud
-account so that credit you purchase can automatically be added to your GATE
Cloud
-account.
+{University of Sheffield's on-line shop}. Vouchers are available in multiples
of
+\textsterling 5; the amount you need to purchase will depend upon the services
+you wish to use. Once you are ready to buy time on GATE Cloud create an
account
+with the University shop and then buy the appropriate amount credit vouchers.
Be
+sure to use the same email address when buying vouchers as when registering for
+a GATE Cloud account so that credit you purchase can automatically be added to
+your GATE Cloud account.
Once you have enough credit you can click through to the checkout where you
can review
your basket before finalizing your order.
@@ -167,12 +164,11 @@
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
GATE Cloud annotation jobs provide a way to quickly process large numbers of
documents using a GATE application, with the results exported to files in GATE
-XML, JSON or \htlink{http://www.xces.org}{XCES} format and/or sent to a
-\htlink{http://gate.ac.uk/family/mimir.html}{Mimir} server for indexing.
-Annotation jobs are
-optimized for the processing of large batches of documents (tens of thousands
-or more) rather than processing a small number of documents on the fly (GATE
-Developer is best suited for the latter).
+XML, JSON, or \htlink{http://www.xces.org}{XCES} format, and/or sent to a
+\htlink{http://gate.ac.uk/family/mimir.html}{M\'{i}mir} server for indexing.
+Annotation jobs are optimized for the processing of large batches of documents
+(tens of thousands or more) rather than processing a small number of documents
+on the fly (GATE Developer is best suited for the latter).
To submit an annotation job you first choose which GATE application you want to
run. GATE Cloud provides some standard pre-packaged applications
@@ -312,13 +308,13 @@
\subsubsection{Hardware and software}
-GATE Cloud annotation jobs are executed on virtual 64-bit (x86\_64) Linux
-servers in the cloud, specifically Ubuntu 14.10 (Trusty Tahr). The GATE
+GATE Cloud annotation jobs are executed on virtual 64-bit (x86\_64) GNU/Linux
+servers in the cloud, specifically Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr). The GATE
application is run using the open-source GCP tool\footnote{Source code is
-available in the subversion repository at\\
-{\tt http://svn.code.sf.net/p/gate/code/gcp/trunk}} on Oracle Java 8
-(currently 1.8.0\_71). The current offering uses the Amazon EC2 cloud, and
runs jobs on
-their 'm3.xlarge' machines which provide 4 virtual CPU cores and 15GB of
+ available in the subversion repository at\\
+ {\tt http://svn.code.sf.net/p/gate/code/gcp/trunk}} on Oracle Java 8
+(currently 1.8.0\_71). The current offering uses the Amazon EC2 cloud, and
runs
+jobs on their 'm3.xlarge' machines which provide 4 virtual CPU cores and 15GB
of
memory, of which 13GB is available to the GCP process.
The jobs are run using GATE Embedded version 8.3, and your application must use
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