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Author: ian_roberts
Date: 2017-01-05 17:42:24 +0000 (Thu, 05 Jan 2017)
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@@ -54,12 +54,13 @@
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GATE Cloud offers several types of services:
\begin{itemize}
-\item Pre-packaged annotation pipelines such as ANNIE or TwitIE. Individual
- documents can be processed free of charge using a REST API (rate limits
- apply) or larger batches of documents can be processed using the paid
+\item Run a pre-packaged annotation pipeline such as ANNIE or TwitIE.
+ Individual documents can be processed free of charge using a REST API (rate
+ limits apply) or larger batches of documents can be processed using the paid
service described below.
-\item The batch-mode service also allows you to upload your own pipeline to run
- on the cloud infrastructure.
+\item Uniquely among online text-mining platforms, the batch-mode service also
+ allows you to build your own custom pipeline in GATE Developer and upload it
+ to run on the cloud infrastructure.
\item Rent a dedicated server to index your documents using GATE M\'{i}mir
(chapter~\ref{chap:mimir}), or to collect social media data via Twitter's
streaming APIs.
@@ -68,37 +69,7 @@
For an up to date list of available services see
\htlinkplain{https://cloud.gate.ac.uk/shopfront}.
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-\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 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
- 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.
-\item Bulk upload of documents to process, {\bf no need to use programming
APIs}.
-\item {\bf No recurring monthly costs}, pay-per-use, billed per hour.
-\item {\bf No daily limit} on number of documents to process.
-\item {\bf No limit on document size}.
-\item Costs of processing dependent on overall {\bf data size}, not number of
- documents.
-\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?!). 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.
-\end{itemize}
-
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\sect[sec:family:cloud-buy]{Using GATE Cloud services}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
@@ -127,7 +98,10 @@
of \textsterling 5, and you can buy additional vouchers at any time. Note that
you \emph{must} use exactly the same email address on the University shop as on
your GATE Cloud account, in order for us to be able to match up your purchases
-and apply the credit to your account automatically.
+and apply the credit to your account automatically. With the batch mode
service
+there are \textbf{no limits} on the number or size of documents you can
process,
+you simply pay for the amount of processing time you use and the amount of data
+you want to store, with a simple and transparent pricing structure.
As with the free quotas, we can offer discounts on the price of paid services
for research users -- contact us for more details.
@@ -182,7 +156,11 @@
three batches that each took 56 minutes of compute time then the total cost of
the job would be \textsterling 3 (178 minutes of compute time, rounded up to 3
hours).
However, if each batch took 62 minutes to process then the total cost would be
-\textsterling 4 (184 minutes, rounded up to 4 hours).
+\textsterling 4 (184 minutes, rounded up to 4 hours). In addition we charge
+a data storage fee of (currently) \textsterling 0.04 per GB per month for the
+data you store within the GATE Cloud platform. Data charges accrue pro-rata on
+a daily basis, so 2GB stored for half a month will cost the same as 1GB stored
+for a whole month.
While the job is running, we apply charges to your account whenever a job has
consumed ten CPU hours since the last charge (which takes considerably less
@@ -193,6 +171,8 @@
negative balance. Note that it is {\bf not} possible to download the result
files
from completed jobs if your GATE Cloud account is overdrawn.
+\ifprintedbook
+
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\subsection{Annotation Job Execution in Detail}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
@@ -434,3 +414,25 @@
successfully or failed) so your data will not be left for the following task
to see.
\end{itemize}
+
+\else % ifprintedbook
+
+\subsect[sec:cloud:details]{Where to find more details}
+
+Detailed documentation on the GATE Cloud platform can be found at
+\htlinkplain{https://cloud.gate.ac.uk/info/help}, including
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item Documentation for the various REST APIs
+\item Details of how to prepare your own custom pipeline to run as a batch job
+\end{itemize}
+
+A Java client library and command-line tool for the REST APIs can be found at
+\htlinkplain{https://github.com/GateNLP/cloud-client}, with extensive
+documentation on its own GitHub wiki, along with example code showing how you
+can call the APIs from other programming languages.
+
+Finally, you can use the \htlink{https://gate.ac.uk/mail/}{GATE-users mailing
+list} if you have any questions not covered by the documentation.
+
+\fi % end of ifprintedbook/else
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