[Chicago] What is cloud computing good for?
skip at pobox.com
skip at pobox.com
Mon Aug 9 20:58:23 CEST 2010
Massimo> If you are not interested in web apps (and looks like you are
Massimo> not) you may be interested in this:
Massimo> http://www.picloud.com/
You are correct. I care not one whit about web apps. I'm interested solely
in single-threaded compute-intensive tasks. Currently, we run the Torque
batch queuing system on Solaris. It works fine, though I am constantly
having to scramble to find hardware. I might have 10 cores available during
the day, 50 at night. That works well until I'm asked to run 4000 jobs one
day. Each job can run from a few minutes to several hours.
PiCloud looks interesting except it doesn't seem that your Python functions
can use C or C++ code which is not part of Python proper. While I write
almost all my software in Python I rely heavily on internal libraries
written in C++ by other groups here at work.
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