Re: Information request/Amazon EC2

Posted by glen e. p. ropella-2 on Aug 20, 2009; 5:50pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-Information-request-Amazon-EC2-tp3475158p3480666.html

Thus spake Marcus G. Daniels circa 09-08-20 10:26 AM:
> One nice thing about what Amazon does in contrast to most supercomputing
> centers is to let you boot whatever kernel image you want.   That can be
> important for diagnosing and fixing some kinds of problems.

Not only for problems; but without the ability to replicate the entire
toolchain all the way down through the OS, our transition from cluster
to cloud would have to wait for a scientific and development punctuation
point... which almost never happens. ;-)

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glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com


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