<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI...<div><br></div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div><div>p.s. Hook was in the same group with me at JPL, a long time ago, and he's currently here in DC at the EarthCube meeting, where I (re)met him in the workflow breakout group.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Hua, Hook (388C)" <<a href="mailto:hook.hua@jpl.nasa.gov">hook.hua@jpl.nasa.gov</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: Swift</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">June 12, 2012 11:51:41 AM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Daniel S. Katz" <<a href="mailto:d.katz@ieee.org">d.katz@ieee.org</a>><br></span></div><br>
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<div>Hi Dan,</div>
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<div>Interesting. Will take a look.</div>
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<div>Have you seen PiCloud [1]? It enables python scripting to control cloud VM for processing. Lowers the entry of barrier even for scripting-based cloud-enabled map-reduce. </div>
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<div>[1] <a href="http://www.picloud.com/">http://www.picloud.com</a>/</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>"Daniel S. Katz" <<a href="mailto:d.katz@ieee.org">d.katz@ieee.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:41:40 -0400<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Hook Hua <<a href="mailto:Hook.Hua@jpl.nasa.gov">Hook.Hua@jpl.nasa.gov</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Swift<br>
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<div>You might be interested in Swift - <a href="http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/">http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/</a></div>
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<div>I work on this in my university time.</div>
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