Comments on: Things I noticed #8 http://mndoci.com/2006/10/07/things-i-noticed-8/ ruminations on science, data and computing by Deepak Singh Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Deepak Singh http://mndoci.com/2006/10/07/things-i-noticed-8/comment-page-1/#comment-274541 Deepak Singh Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:15:22 +0000 http://mndoci.com/blog/2006/10/07/things-i-noticed-8/#comment-274541 I missed Pierre's gadget. Thanks<br><br>I love the Amazon projects. So far the idea has been to promote them to small enterprises as you point out. It's the private angle that I found very very interesting. I wonder how far away you and I are from having our Sun Grid Engine or Amazon S3/EC2 accounts.<br><br>Unrelated fields is probably a good thing. These IT types get to have all the fun otherwise :). I missed Pierre's gadget. Thanks

I love the Amazon projects. So far the idea has been to promote them to small enterprises as you point out. It's the private angle that I found very very interesting. I wonder how far away you and I are from having our Sun Grid Engine or Amazon S3/EC2 accounts.

Unrelated fields is probably a good thing. These IT types get to have all the fun otherwise :) .

]]> By: Deepak Singh http://mndoci.com/2006/10/07/things-i-noticed-8/comment-page-1/#comment-2867 Deepak Singh Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:15:22 +0000 http://mndoci.com/blog/2006/10/07/things-i-noticed-8/#comment-2867 I missed Pierre's gadget. Thanks I love the Amazon projects. So far the idea has been to promote them to small enterprises as you point out. It's the private angle that I found very very interesting. I wonder how far away you and I are from having our Sun Grid Engine or Amazon S3/EC2 accounts. Unrelated fields is probably a good thing. These IT types get to have all the fun otherwise :). I missed Pierre’s gadget. Thanks

I love the Amazon projects. So far the idea has been to promote them to small enterprises as you point out. It’s the private angle that I found very very interesting. I wonder how far away you and I are from having our Sun Grid Engine or Amazon S3/EC2 accounts.

Unrelated fields is probably a good thing. These IT types get to have all the fun otherwise :) .

]]> By: Pedro Beltrao http://mndoci.com/2006/10/07/things-i-noticed-8/comment-page-1/#comment-270109 Pedro Beltrao Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:04:50 +0000 http://mndoci.com/blog/2006/10/07/things-i-noticed-8/#comment-270109 Pierre from YAKAFON also made an <a href="http://plindenbaum.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-gadget-for-bioinformatics.html" rel="nofollow">interesting Google gadget</a>.<br><br><br>I really like the ideas around the Amazon scalable IT products. They also rent out processing power with their EC2 product. Sun also has a grid service for anyone interested on scalable processing. This goes in a trend of outsourcing the IT department. Instead of having to manage servers on your company/research institute maybe it makes more sense to rent it as need arises from someone. Maybe for private owners it is still early but for most medium size groups this is likely a good option right now. <br><br>Maybe we should try to right a wiki review :) the problem is that we are all from slightly unrelated fields. Pierre from YAKAFON also made an interesting Google gadget.

I really like the ideas around the Amazon scalable IT products. They also rent out processing power with their EC2 product. Sun also has a grid service for anyone interested on scalable processing. This goes in a trend of outsourcing the IT department. Instead of having to manage servers on your company/research institute maybe it makes more sense to rent it as need arises from someone. Maybe for private owners it is still early but for most medium size groups this is likely a good option right now.

Maybe we should try to right a wiki review :) the problem is that we are all from slightly unrelated fields.

]]> By: Pedro Beltrao http://mndoci.com/2006/10/07/things-i-noticed-8/comment-page-1/#comment-2857 Pedro Beltrao Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:04:50 +0000 http://mndoci.com/blog/2006/10/07/things-i-noticed-8/#comment-2857 Pierre from YAKAFON also made an <a href="http://plindenbaum.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-gadget-for-bioinformatics.html" rel="nofollow">interesting Google gadget</a>. I really like the ideas around the Amazon scalable IT products. They also rent out processing power with their EC2 product. Sun also has a grid service for anyone interested on scalable processing. This goes in a trend of outsourcing the IT department. Instead of having to manage servers on your company/research institute maybe it makes more sense to rent it as need arises from someone. Maybe for private owners it is still early but for most medium size groups this is likely a good option right now. Maybe we should try to right a wiki review :) the problem is that we are all from slightly unrelated fields. Pierre from YAKAFON also made an interesting Google gadget.

I really like the ideas around the Amazon scalable IT products. They also rent out processing power with their EC2 product. Sun also has a grid service for anyone interested on scalable processing. This goes in a trend of outsourcing the IT department. Instead of having to manage servers on your company/research institute maybe it makes more sense to rent it as need arises from someone. Maybe for private owners it is still early but for most medium size groups this is likely a good option right now.

Maybe we should try to right a wiki review :) the problem is that we are all from slightly unrelated fields.

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