Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:48:34PM +0100, Obey Arthur Liu a écrit : >> Edouard Nemours a écrit : >>> Dear List, >>> >>> i'd love to raise awareness of the fact that many companies and users of >>> debian hosts move their systems to "the cloud" (for instance amazon ec2). >>> Recently Ubuntu started developing official Ubuntu EC2 images. >>> >>> Wouldn't it be nice to have official Debian EC2 images/AMIs, too? >>> Didn't find any discussion on this topic before. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> --Ed >> Creating Debian EC2 images/AMIs and related tools would make a very cool >> Google Summer of Code project. Anyone willing to mentor that ? >> >> <http://wiki.debian.org/gsoc> > > Hi all, > > there is definitely a strong interest in the Debian Med project. The > computational needs of biologists are exploding, and cloud computing could be a > solution. However, I am already willing to mentor another project, the "Large > dataset manager", so whoever is intersted in having official EC2 images, please > step up. Otherwise, whether I am available will depend on the success of the > other project in getting accepted. Cool. I work on semantic web research with huge datasets like the whole of wikipedia and many researchers use Amazon EC2, like: <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtInstallationEC2> I have never used it myself. I prefer using my lab's 16-cores beasts ;D > Lastly, as a caveat I must say that to use the Amazon computer cloud, one has > to install some non-free software written in Java… I suppose the project could include reducing the dependency on these non-free tools ? I have no idea at all if this is possible. If you have a few minutes free, could you write a few lines in the proposal description ? <http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2009/Amazon_EC2_AMI> Thanks! Arthur -- Obey Arthur Liu <http://www.milliways.fr>
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