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AWS and Hadoop
03.23.09 | Permalink | Comment?

The New York Times used 100 Amazon EC2 instances and a Hadoop application to process 4TB of raw image TIFF data (stored in S3) into 1.1 million finished PDFs in the space of 24 hours at a computation cost of about $240 (not including bandwidth).
NY Times: Self-service, Prorated Super Computing Fun!

The project was so easy, [...]
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Computing Power for Rent
03.23.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Every time someone buys a server, a switch or a data center, I have failed.
Marc Benioff (CEO Salesforce.com)
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Cloud Computing
03.15.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ve been playing around with hosting websites on virtual instances on Amazon’s Electric Cloud Compute (EC2).
I’m in the process of writing a tutorial on how to get up and running: Cloud Web Hosting: AWS