Short talk at Amazon AWS event in NYC May 28th
Offtopic but just wanted to post a short note that I'll be giving a short talk (~10) in NYC on May 28th at the 2009 Amazon AWS Start-Up Tour.
The tour details and dates are here:
http://aws.amazon.com/startupproject/
The 4 AWS user presentations on the 28th will be from
- Sam Lessin, CEO, drop.io
- Dan Gill, VP Business Development, Gotuit
- Chris Dagdigian, Founding Partner, BioTeam
- Brian Adams, Co-Founder and CTO, Admeld
Say 'hi' if you attend the event!
amazon AWS physical data ingest service launches
Not strictly on-topic for this blog but it is the main Amazon cloud feature that I've been anxiously awaiting for some time now.
Simply put, Amazon is now willing to accept delivery of eSATA and USB disks for large-scale data ingestion into the S3 storage cloud service. This is far faster than internet based methods, particularly if you are dealing with daily terabyte-scale data that you'd like to park in some sort of external utility service.
I think this may be a big deal for life science and can forsee quite a bit of scientific data making "1-way" trips into the cloud for long term storage and even secondary processing via cloud server instances. We'll see.
These links cover the just-launched service in detail:
Sun video on SGE and Cloud Computing
Sun has published a new flash video demo (registration required for viewing) here: http://www.sun.com/offers/details/sun_grid_engine.html
Description:
Sun envisions a world of many clouds, both public and private, that are open, compatible, and designed for all types of applications—including high performance computing. Sun is extending cloud computing to High Performance, building not just a cloud, but an entire Cloud eco-system. Through this narrated demonstration, learn how Sun Grid Engine fulfills the promise of cloud computing in HPC.
Q&A on Univa UD Unicluster & Amazon EC2
What does this have to do with Grid Engine? Well the UniCluster Express suite includes Grid Engine with integrated monitoring and reporting tools.
I did a project for Univa UD where I documented the steps required to get their product integrated into the Amazon EC2 elastic compute cloud. That is the whitepaper referred to in the marketing materials below.
I've agreed to participate in a webinar and answer questions about the project, click on through for the full event details.
Amazon Web Services, BioTeam and Univa UD invite you to attend a free, live webinar: "Cloud and Clusters: Running UniCluster in Amazon's EC2"
Date: Wednesday, September 17th
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Central Standard Time
Register at: http://www.univaud.com/hpc/webinar20080917.php
Presented by leaders in HPC and Web Services, this webinar will provide IT decision-makers and System Administrators a unique opportunity to access real world information and examples of deploying clusters in a cloud environment.
Attendees will:
-Learn about Amazon's EC2 web services, the UniCluster open sourcesoftware stack, and deployment of this software within EC2
-Gain insight into key data points from the people out in the field making it happen
-Be able to engage in a technical Q and A with the author of the technical white paper: "Deploying UniCluster in Amazon EC2"
Learn more about the webinar and register to attend at:
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