Posts under ‘Virtualization’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 high [...]

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 [...]