Laughing Meme » computing http://laughingmeme.org Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:12:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Amazon EC2: Still working on the “elastic” part? http://laughingmeme.org/2006/08/24/amazon-ec2-still-working-on-the-elastic-part/ http://laughingmeme.org/2006/08/24/amazon-ec2-still-working-on-the-elastic-part/#comments Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:04:00 +0000 Kellan http://lm.quxx.info/?p=3454 I’ve been waiting for an Amazon compute cluster ever since S3 came out, and like Les I tried, and failed, to sign up for EC2 beta as soon as I got the email. What all you freaks were doing up around 5am signing up for webservices I’ll never know.

Nik over at TechCrunch however ran the numbers, and its looking more like what I get from John Companies, and less like the great mapreduce grid in the sky I was hoping for.

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http://saladwithsteve.com/2005/02/distributed-systems-for-living.html

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