[9fans] "cloud" computing

[9fans] "cloud" computing

[ron minnich]

I have an application for 10,000 machines. One option is to buy them
and run them, yuck!

One thought was to just rent them at amazon ecc:
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=84

Anybody worked with these guys? I need to run the 10k machines with
lguest. Any other possible providers anyone out there knows of?

thanks

ron

Re: [9fans] "cloud" computing

[andrey mirtchovski]

is your app export-controlled?

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:04 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an application for 10,000 machines. One option is to buy them
> and run them, yuck!

Re: [9fans] "cloud" computing

[ron minnich]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:27 AM, andrey mirtchovski
<mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
> is your app export-controlled?

No. That was the first thought that hit my mind.

ron

Re: [9fans] "cloud" computing

[Mark F Rodriguez]

Ron,

> Anybody worked with these guys? I need to run the 10k machines with
> lguest. Any other possible providers anyone out there knows of?

We're using <http://www.joyent.com> which has worked well for us.

Good luck.

--
Mark F Rodriguez

Re: [9fans] "cloud" computing

[Zak B. Elep]

rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich) writes:

> One thought was to just rent them at amazon ecc:
> http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=84
>
> Anybody worked with these guys? I need to run the 10k machines with
> lguest. Any other possible providers anyone out there knows of?

These are basically all Xen machines.  I don't know if you can run
lguest within them, or if Amazon provides lguest-based instances.

Re: [9fans] "cloud" computing

[Eric Van Hensbergen]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Zak B. Elep <zakame@zakame.net> wrote:
> rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich) writes:
>
>> One thought was to just rent them at amazon ecc:
>> http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=84
>>
>> Anybody worked with these guys? I need to run the 10k machines with
>> lguest. Any other possible providers anyone out there knows of?
>
> These are basically all Xen machines.  I don't know if you can run
> lguest within them, or if Amazon provides lguest-based instances.
>

lguest can be installed as a module, so I don't think this would be a
big problem -- of course, no vx32 is an option and its even less of a
problem....

       -eric

Re: [9fans] "cloud" computing

[Charles Forsyth]

> of course, no vx32 is an option and its even less of a
> problem....

it didn't work for me on my virtual servers under user mode linux,
which was hardly surprising. i haven't taken the time yet to discover
precisely why not.

Re: [9fans] "cloud" computing

[Zak B. Elep]

ericvh@gmail.com (Eric Van Hensbergen) writes:

> lguest can be installed as a module, so I don't think this would be a
> big problem -- of course, no vx32 is an option and its even less of a
> problem....

Ahh right I forgot about that :)  You'd probably want to build a custom
machine image with lguest in; I should try this myself sometime...