HP, Intel and Yahoo To Research Cloud Computing – Yahoo News
HP, Intel and Yahoo To Research Cloud Computing – Yahoo News
Boy, this could really come in handy in Open Source, especially projects like Mahout, Nutch and distributed Solr. I find my biggest personal challenge on Mahout is access to computing resources. I personally don’t have the financial backing to buy much time on Amazon EC2. I have been scraping by, here and there, but find myself constantly wanting access to more capabilities.
Sigh. Maybe I should put more ads on this site and use the funds for buying EC2 time.
Why use Amazon’s EC2 when Joyent is such a better alternative? In terms of Open Source and wanting access to more capabilities, Joyent’s Accelerators are an excellent platform for Ruby, Python, PHP and Java apps. With hardware load balancing, Joyent blows Amazon out of the water when it comes to scalability and price. Just look what they did for LinkedIn’s Bumper Sticker app for Facebook.
Hi Kristen,
Are you offering to donate Joyent services to Apache committers as Amazon has?