Hello, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: > Charles Plessy a écrit : >> Le Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:48:34PM +0100, Obey Arthur Liu a écrit : >>> Edouard Nemours a écrit :
>>>> 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. >>>> >>> 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> >> >> 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 ? * Please be aware of some very fine free work done by http://alestic.com/ both for Ubuntu and Debian. To prepare one's own AMI is not overly difficult, though. I am paying for a Debian-Med AMI every month but have forgotten the root password :) * There is a free alternative to the Amazon clouds that is compatibly to the Amazon tools, even, which is called Eucalyptus http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/ . I was in contact with upstream a few months ago, who said they'd come up with Debian packages any time soon. I was/am too busy to follow this up much. I agree the hype all around the clouds to be rather contagious. For a summer project however I would tend to rather focus on the preparation of data sources rather than on the middleware. Best, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org