Meeting: Tuesday 26th September 2006

[Paul Mooney]

On 27 Sep 2006, at 00:17, Peter Edwards wrote:

> Good to see you all tonight.
> I looked at Amazon Cloud a while ago. Interesting but I remain to be
> convinced :) I guess I had too many techie questions about exactly 
> what the
> platform was and what I could do with it. They must be aiming it at
> corporate suits but nonetheless I can see that Google et al. web 
> services
> are headed in this direction.

Thanks for the link Tom, very interesting :)

Peter: Any idea if the platform could be used to do some compute 
intensive stuff? It doesn't say it can't but like you I have lots of 
questions. Some of the stuff I do is embarrassingly parallel and the 
idea of renting 20 odd machines for 4 hours is quite appealing. There 
would be very little web front end, just some hot machines at the back 
end :)

>
> Regards, Peter
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of
> Tom Hukins
> Sent: 26 September 2006 23:58
> To: Milton Keynes Perl Mongers
> Subject: Re: Meeting: Tuesday 26th September 2006
>
> Hello, as usual I enjoyed chatting to you all in the pub.  It was
> really good to see a couple of new faces too.
>
> I promised I would mention Amazon's distributed computing service to
> the list:
> http://aws.amazon.com/ec2
>
> In fact, their Web services offerings in general are worth looking
> into if you haven't heard about them yet:
> http://aws.amazon.com/
>
> (I particularly like the idea of Mechanical Turk and S3: Simple
> Storage Service)
>
> I look forward to seeing you all on the 10th October for the technical
> meet.  I'll send an announcement once I've stopped stressing about
> moving house.  Hopefully soon. ;)
>
> Tom
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