Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

2009-08-20 Thread Roger Critchlow
There was an interesting article from SIGCOMM posted yesterday about in-center-inter-connect: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~vahdat/papers/portland-sigcomm09.pdf http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/08-09PortLand.asp http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pTgFA2gqsEg/How-To-Build-a-1

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

2009-08-20 Thread Douglas Roberts
Jack, It would be a fun project to move some already running largish distributed ABM from a standard Linux cluster over to EC2. If only my company would pay me to play just on the fun projects... --Doug On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Jack K. Horner wrote: > At 09:00 AM 8/20/2009, Doug Rober

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

2009-08-20 Thread Jack K. Horner
03417.34cb21f...@smtp-out.cybermesa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2 Message: 3 At 09:00 AM 8/19/2009, Doug Roberts wrote: From: Douglas Roberts Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Friday

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

2009-08-20 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Thus spake Marcus G. Daniels circa 09-08-20 10:26 AM: > One nice thing about what Amazon does in contrast to most supercomputing > centers is to let you boot whatever kernel image you want. That can be > important for diagnosing and fixing some kinds of problems. Not only for problems; but witho

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

2009-08-20 Thread Douglas Roberts
Penguin Computing is trying to distinguish themselves in this way with their POD (Penguin On Demand, cute) service. http://www.penguincomputing.com/POD/HPC_as_a_service They seem expensive compared to Amazon, though. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > Douglas Roberts w

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

2009-08-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Douglas Roberts wrote: Interesting article about cloud computing on Slashdot today: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/20/0327205/Amazon-MS-Google-Clouds-Flop-In-Stress-Tests?art_pos=7 One nice thing about what Amazon does in contrast to most supercomputing centers is to let you boot whateve

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

2009-08-20 Thread Douglas Roberts
Interesting article about cloud computing on Slashdot today: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/20/0327205/Amazon-MS-Google-Clouds-Flop-In-Stress-Tests?art_pos=7 --Doug On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Jack K. Horner wrote: > At 09:00 AM 8/19/2009, Doug Roberts wrote: > > From: Douglas Robe

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

2009-08-19 Thread Douglas Roberts
Thanks, Jack. I suspect that for distributed message passing ABM simulations the Amazon EC is not a good solution. --Doug -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Jack K. Horner wrote: > At 09:00 AM 8/19/

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

2009-08-19 Thread Jack K. Horner
At 09:00 AM 8/19/2009, Doug Roberts wrote: From: Douglas Roberts Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:38:23 -0600 Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Message-ID: <681c54590908180938