After all these years dealing with servers, switches, routers and virtualisation technologies we think it´s time to move our lab into the next phase, the Cloud, specifically the Amazon EC2 Cloud.
We are actively working in the Cloud now for different projects, as you´ve seen in previous blog posts. We believe and feel this step is [...]
Posts under ‘Virtualization’
Eating our own Dog Food! - The Server Labs moves its Lab to the Cloud!
Java HelloWorld @ the Cloud with Amazon EC2
This post is about how to run a simple java application installed in one of your Amazon AMI’s
Thanks to the GridGain guys who inspired me when I read this page about running GridGain in Amazon EC2
I am going to assume that you know how to create an Amazon AMI. For information on how to create [...]
The Server Labs @ the Cloud Computing Expo Europe 09
We are glad to announce that we are going to publish a paper and give a talk at the Cloud Computing Expo Europe
Paper Title: Cloud Science: Astrometric Processing in Amazon EC2/S3
Paper Abstract:
With the maturing of cloud computing, it is now feasible to run scientific applications in the cloud. Data storage and [...]
Amazon releases EBS, Persistent Storage for EC2
Last week Amazon announced the release of Elastic Block Store (EBS), a block based persistent storage mechanism for EC2. This is very exciting news that will make a huge impact on the adoption of cloud computing and virtualisation in general.
I’m not going to go into a huge amount of detail here, if you want to [...]