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Cloud computing humor

Alexey Bokov — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:43:56 +0000

A little bit of humor about cloud computing and eyjafjallajokull

Alexey Bokov — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:52:01 +0000

US military builds HPC clusted based on Sony PS3

Alexey Bokov — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:50:49 +0000

The US military has announced plans to buy 2,200 more of the game consoles, so that they can massively beef up the processing power of an existing, PS3-based supercomputer. A “Justification Review Document,” which has oddly been deleted from Google since I found it but is still available at this cache link, explains that, “the new PS3s will be placed in a cluster environment with an existing cluster of 336 PS3s by connecting each of the units’ one gigabit Ethernet port to a common 24 port gigabit hub.”
via arstechnica.com

Amazon Web Services links – October/November 2009

Alexey Bokov — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:11:26 +0000

Update in Amazon Web Services:

2 high cpu instance types : 64 bits – Double Extra Large с 34.2 GB RAM, and 13 ECU (4 virtual cores *3.25 EC2 compute Unit=ECU), 64-bit platform
and Quadruple Extra Large – 68.4 GB of RAM/ 26 ECU (8 virtual cores* 3.25 ECU) : New EC2 High-Memory Instances

Instance prices changes ( us-east is still cheaper thatn eu-west ) : Amazon EC2 – Now an Even Better Value

New service for relational DB ( provisioning, scaling and other nice things ) : Introducing Amazon RDS – The Amazon Relational Database Service

Security stuff : Vulnerability identified in Amazon’s cloud computing

Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu at google groups

5 years ago Amazon announced Amazon Simple Queue Service – top points of AWS for last 5 years

New big trend in cloud computing – DNRDBMS

Alexey Bokov — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:31:19 +0000

Distributed, non-relational database systems – DNRDBMS – see

Half of All Developers Plan Private Cloud Deployments

Alexey Bokov — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:06:11 +0000

If a recent Evans Data study is any indication, private cloud deployments could rise sharply over the next year.

Using SDM to managing OpenSolaris zones

Alexey Bokov — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:03:44 +0000

Sun Grid Engine’s top engineer Richard Hierlmeier wrote article ( and some bash scripts which implements it – btw why you not to put it them onto your cvs? ) about using SDM in compute cloud ( here’s EC2 as example, I suppose that GoGrid can be used also without too many changes ) – Using SDM Cloud Adapter to Manage Solaris Zones.

John Markoff and Clay Shirky talk to David Gelernter – Lord of the Cloud

Alexey Bokov — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:09:51 +0000

The central idea we were working on was this idea of de-localized information — information for which I didn’t care what computer it was stored on. It didn’t depend on any particular computer. I didn’t know the identities of other computers in the ensemble that I was working on. I just knew myself and the cybersphere, or sometimes we called it the tuplesphere, or just a bunch of information floating around. We used the analogy — we talked about helium balloons. We used a million ways to try and explain this idea – hn Markoff and Clay Shirky talk to David Gelernter – Lord of the Cloud

Stallman: Cloud computing is ‘stupidity’

Alexey Bokov — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:16:26 +0000

Stallman dismisses cloud computing as industry bluster. “It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign,” he said – huh, i agree that anything which contain “cloud” keyword have too much marketing stuff , but it’s not really stupid. There’s too much marketing stuff in this area ( and goGrid’s guys are the very first for this ‘too much marketing’ ), but let’s look on amazon ec2 – it’s really great amazing thing – last 7 years my work related with various size cluster’s, and last year my “server provider” is amazon – and I may say that amazon is much convenient than any company-owned-datacenter. For my it’s big deal when I can get 100 servers for 10 mins and run some job on them. There’s too much marketing noise in cloud industry, but it works and it works almost fine.
ps. Another point for cloud computing – it’s Steve Ballmer on defining the cloud.