<div dir="ltr">Google is adding new services to GCE by the day. Recently they announced a new programming model (as a replacement of MapReduce) called ... Cloud Dataflow. And some more services: <a href="http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/06/25/google-dumps-mapreduce-favor-new-hyper-scale-analytics-system">http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/06/25/google-dumps-mapreduce-favor-new-hyper-scale-analytics-system</a><div>
<br></div><div>--</div><div>Ketan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Ian Foster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foster@anl.gov" target="_blank">foster@anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Nice. This would be a great use case for linking credit card info into Globus Nexus authentication. (Once we get to that.)<br>
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On Jun 27, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Yadu Nand Babuji <<a href="mailto:yadunand@uchicago.edu">yadunand@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Thanks!<br>
><br>
> Google beats AWS in both Pricing and performance. Once you are past the initial run of setup.sh from<br>
> the compute-engine setup, starting a 20 node cluster takes on less than a 1min. The initial run copies<br>
> over images which takes time.<br>
><br>
> AWS GCE<br>
> Micro instance $0.020/Hr $0.013/Hr [1][2]<br>
> Networking perf 135mbits/s 692mbits/s [3]<br>
> Boot speed 1min+ < 30s [4]<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="https://developers.google.com/compute/pricing" target="_blank">https://developers.google.com/compute/pricing</a><br>
> [2] <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/" target="_blank">http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/</a><br>
> [3] <a href="https://blog.serverdensity.com/network-performance-aws-google-rackspace-softlayer/" target="_blank">https://blog.serverdensity.com/network-performance-aws-google-rackspace-softlayer/</a><br>
> [4] <a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/03/15/by-the-numbers-how-google-compute-engine-stacks-up-to-amazon-ec2/" target="_blank">http://gigaom.com/2013/03/15/by-the-numbers-how-google-compute-engine-stacks-up-to-amazon-ec2/</a><br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
> -Yadu<br>
><br>
> On 06/27/2014 11:11 AM, Foster, Ian T. wrote:<br>
>> Very nice.<br>
>><br>
>> I am curious as to the reason for running on google. No objection to it, I just don't have experience with it -- only google<br>
>><br>
>>> On Jun 27, 2014, at 10:47 AM, "Yadu Nand Babuji" <<a href="mailto:yadunand@uchicago.edu">yadunand@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi Everyone,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Please try the Google Compute Engine setup and tutorial, I've linked below.<br>
>>> This will require credit card information and will bill you<br>
>>> approximately $0.065/Hr<br>
>>> with the default config of 5 micro instances.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Cloud setup online doc:<br>
>>> <a href="https://github.com/yadudoc/swift-on-cloud/tree/master/compute-engine" target="_blank">https://github.com/yadudoc/swift-on-cloud/tree/master/compute-engine</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> Git repo to clone:<br>
>>> <a href="https://github.com/yadudoc/swift-on-cloud.git" target="_blank">https://github.com/yadudoc/swift-on-cloud.git</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> Once setup is done, do "connect headnode" and you can run the<br>
>>> swift-cloud-tutorial<br>
>>> under your $HOME/swift-on-cloud/swift-cloud-tutorial folder on the<br>
>>> headnode instance.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Feedback would be much appreciated.<br>
>>><br>
>>> PS: Remember to shut-down instances using the "dissolve" command.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Thanks!<br>
>>> Yadu<br>
>>><br>
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