25 Jan 11
Originally posted by PalynkaHow long is your actual code and how big is your expected result going to be?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud
Has anyone here used this before?
It sounds excellent for what I need, which is sporadic but extremely long computations.
Will code for food.
25 Jan 11
You see the free tier? http://aws.amazon.com/free/
I actually signed up last year after the free tier was activated, but only started using the S3 storage, never the EC2.
A Java dev friend of mine's company uses EC2 exclusively for futures trading software and other stuff (I have no idea what, can't really understand when he tried explaining it. Financial stuff is a little out of my league.)
I struggled a bit to get going, because I've not used SSH in ages.
Here's a few links that can help you:
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http://cloudcarpenters.com/blog/ec2_putty/
http://alestic.com/
26 Jan 11
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Originally posted by PalynkaThey have a new offering now - Elastic Beanstalk (http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud
Has anyone here used this before?
It sounds excellent for what I need, which is sporadic but extremely long computations.
With the standard cloud stuff, you bring whole virtual machines online as you need them, the beanstalk approach has virtual JVMs - no operating system, just the application server - you can say how big a back end you want in terms of memory and CPU, but you don't have to manage the OS.
Where I work we use the odd cloud machine for load testing and website monitoring - it's so cheap. We'll be looking seriously at putting out JVMs into the cloud as the on-demand scalability looks awesome.
Sign up - you can get a feel for either in a few minutes and it'll only cost a few coffees for days worth of computation.
[edit: See here - http://sourceforge.net/projects/elasticfox/
for the ElasticFox add-on for firefox. Makes managing the EC2 stuff simple]