Archive for July, 2010

Cloud Supercomputing Service

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Amazon’s Cluster Compute is a cloud supercomputing beast. And the best part? It’s pay-per-use: just pay a small fee per hour. What more could you ask for?

Amazon’s powerful Cluster Compute, released Tuesday, is Amazon’s most powerful cloud server yet. The system will run Linux, according to Ars Technica. Amazon states that each node will consist of a pair of Intel Xeon X5570s with 2.93 GHz and 8MB of on-chip cache memory so that the customer can design for that specific hardware. Also, for improved performance, the nodes will have 10 Gigabyte-per-second Ethernet interfaces connecting them. .

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NetHosting to Attend HostingCon 2010

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

NetHosting, a global provider of Cloud, Dedicated, and VPS hosting platforms, will be represented at HostingCon 2010, held at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, by NetHosting CEO Lane Livingston. It is anticipated that Mr. Livingston will be joined in attendance by over 1,500 other Internet professionals from over 30 different countries, making the 6th annual HostingCon event the most successful to date.

The event, to be held July 19-21, will provide a detailed canvas illustrating the crucial aspects of today’s hosting industry and will offer attendees an in-depth analysis of effective sales and marketing strategies, industry trends, infrastructural technology tactics, and general and regulatory business development processes.

“As much as I am looking forward to the networking opportunities at HostingCon, the schedule of speakers promises to be a rewarding one,” stated Mr. Livingston. “As NetHosting continues to grow as a resource for emerging and established enterprises, we recognize tremendous value in venues like HostingCon, which bring a broad spectrum of professionals together to share and connect.”

HostingCon’s scheduled keynotes include Lydia Leong, industry analyst at Gartner; Director of Global Marketing of Data Center Solutions at Dell, Andy Rhodes; and entrepreneurial tycoon Serguei Beloussov, who is also Chairman and CEO of Parallels, a global leader in virtualization and automation software.

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Amazon Launches Cluster Compute Instance

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Amazon’s most powerful cloud server, the Cluster Compute Instance, was made available Tuesday in EC2.  The Amazon Cluster Compute Instance is designed for high performance computing and able to be grouped together with other Cluster servers via high speed networking.

Cluster Compute Instances are being launched as “an open beta,” said Peter DeSantis, Amazon Web Services general manager, in an interview.  DeSantis later said Cluster Instances will be interconnected with 10Gb Ethernet; nodes in a clulster will be able to communicate at ten times the speed of standard EC2 instances. In addition, DeSantis said the Cluster instances are racked together to maximize physical proximity and minimize the distance of any communications between nodes. In the past, Elastic Compute Cloud users have had no control over where two servers that they might activate would be located; now they can direct that Cluster instances be launched to “a placement group” that ensures physical proximity, said DeSantis.

Although I want to try out the Amazon cloud cluster compute instance. I feel that the cluster is a little pricey.  It will be priced at $1.60 per hour, compared to $.085 for a Small Linux server, $.34 for a Large Linux server and $.68 for an Extra Large Linux server.  They keep saying that cloud computing is cheap.  From the looks at this it’s going to be a little more expensive than we had hoped for.  Cloud hosting providers are making their money somehow, right?

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