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Cloud
AWS and Hadoop
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
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
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 -
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Google Energy
There has been a lot of buzz (GigaOm, TG Daily, Wired, Fast Company) about Google’s foray into the energy market. Working with GE and other energy companies Google hopes to bring networked meters into the home.
By having accessible/real time metrics for household power consumption consumers can make real attempts at saving power. Much like [...]
John Bullard
