John Bullard » Cloud http://johnbullard.net Loose Thinking, Tight Analysis Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:32:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 AWS and Hadoop http://johnbullard.net/2009/03/23/aws-and-hadoop/ http://johnbullard.net/2009/03/23/aws-and-hadoop/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:40:47 +0000 John http://johnbullard.net/?p=286

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, and so cheap, that the developers ran the process a second time after noticing  a minute error. Just another example of how cloud computing is changing the game.

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Every time someone buys a server, a switch or a data center, I have failed.
Marc Benioff (CEO Salesforce.com)

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I’m in the process of writing a tutorial on how to get up and running: Cloud Web Hosting: AWS

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