Anthony .. I'd be very happy for OAM to use the infrastructure you're talking about it. If it's so easy to find massive cheap hosting, consider yourself empowered to investigate the option. Once you have something solid for the community and the new steering committee to evaluate, let them know.
I still think the community consensus is that the architecture of OAM should be set up in a decentralized way, for processing and hosting. Even if there are a couple mega-nodes, we still need the flexibility in case resources change. Thanks Mikel == Mikel Maron == http://mapkibera.org/ +254 (0) 724899738 [email protected] ________________________________ From: Anthony <[email protected]> To: OAM List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, December 8, 2009 4:27:59 AM Subject: Re: [OAM-talk] centralized hosting On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Amazon is not the only organization out there who can host a few hundred >>> terabytes of data. > >But they are the only place where you could 'easily' provision the >>machines to process datasets of this size without a massive capital >>investment up front. Maybe if by "easily" you mean without asking anyone to lend or donate those machines to us. And if by 'easily' you mean without answering a few simple questions, like how many machines you need. >Its not just about storing and hosting ... you >>have to get the data from its original format and projection into >>tiles suitable for serving. > I assume that can be done offline. Can't the hosting be centralized but the one-time processing decentralized? What are we talking about, running gdalwarp a few hundred million times? If so, what are we waiting for? I've got hundreds of gigabytes of tiles already rendered. And that doesn't count the terabytes of them that I've thrown away. What I need is a permanent home for them, where I can access them as I need them, so I can get them off my hard drive, so I can start making more. I'm fairly certain we can find someone willing to host OAM for us, very cheaply. If anyone else is interested in working with me on this, drop me a message. I ask for two things. Don't tell me something is impossible when you haven't asked around to see if it's possible, and don't forward messages that I send you privately to a public mailing list.
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