[Chicago] What is cloud computing good for?

Ed Leafe ed at leafe.com
Mon Aug 9 20:55:03 CEST 2010


On Aug 9, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:

> As for the 10K number -- was that on EC2? And did you get the number
> of zeros right on that??


	No, that was on their own cloud platform: Nova, which is the starting point for the OpenStack code base.

	And yes, it was 10,000 instances! NASA deals with very large data sets, it appears. ;-)


-- Ed Leafe





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