Bill Grid computing has a very large base of implementations (science, medicine, education) but its not a useful model for everything. That said, have a look at MIT's StarCluster project<http://web.mit.edu/stardev/cluster/>. It runs on Amazon EC2, uses Sun Grid Engine (SGE) and Ubuntu AMI's and I believe its mostly written in python.
They've layering a grid (SGE) architecture on top of AWS's EC2 which makes for some very interesting possibilities in itself. I believe it should be able to run on Canonical's UEC also give a few minor changes in the main config file to point to the UEC instead of EC2. MIT has a pretty good YouTube video that shows StarCluster in operation<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC3lJcPq1FY&feature=player_embedded>and how simple it is to submit "jobs" to the EC2 grid cluster Brian ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:08:35 -0500 From: dettymac <b...@chipmunk.tv> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-cloud] Cloud Training events To: Ahmed Kamal <ahmed.ka...@canonical.com> Cc: ubuntu-cloud <ubuntu-cloud@lists.ubuntu.com>, Ubuntu Server List <ubuntu-ser...@lists.ubuntu.com> Message-ID: <1292857715.25022.135.ca...@mavrick> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Ahmed, I believe a true cloud would be best run on a Grid infrastructure, not in the way Amazon and others are simply setting you up with a virtual machine which can only scale to set hardware implemented on. This needs optimization at the Linux Kernel level for efficient real-time scalability. XtreemOS, another open source Linux server project is making great progress in this area and I would like if anyone working on Ubuntu server/cloud take a look at their code for possible implementation. http://www.xtreemos.eu/ Redundancy is also an area in which needs addressing, Cloud assets should have an exact duplicate in different Physical locations with different ISP's Seamless integration between IPV4 and IPV6 For those on Facebook there is a group specific to XtreemOS: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=77236338476 I hope this information is helpful to you or anyone developing Ubuntu server and cloud architecture. Thanks Bill Detty
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