[Swift-devel] Swift on Google compute engine [Request for comments]

[Yadu Nand Babuji]

Thanks!

Google beats AWS in both Pricing and performance. Once you are past the 
initial run of setup.sh from
the compute-engine setup, starting a 20 node cluster takes on less than 
a 1min. The initial run copies
over images which takes time.

AWS                                    GCE
Micro instance                 $0.020/Hr                              
$0.013/Hr                  [1][2]
Networking perf               135mbits/s 692mbits/s                [3]
Boot speed 1min+                                 < 30s [4]

[1] https://developers.google.com/compute/pricing
[2] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
[3] 
https://blog.serverdensity.com/network-performance-aws-google-rackspace-softlayer/
[4] 
http://gigaom.com/2013/03/15/by-the-numbers-how-google-compute-engine-stacks-up-to-amazon-ec2/

Thanks
-Yadu

On 06/27/2014 11:11 AM, Foster, Ian T. wrote:
> Very nice.
>
> 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
>
>> On Jun 27, 2014, at 10:47 AM, "Yadu Nand Babuji" <yadunand at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Please try the Google Compute Engine setup and tutorial, I've linked below.
>> This will require credit card information and will bill you
>> approximately $0.065/Hr
>> with the default config of 5 micro instances.
>>
>> Cloud setup online doc:
>> https://github.com/yadudoc/swift-on-cloud/tree/master/compute-engine
>>
>> Git repo to clone:
>> https://github.com/yadudoc/swift-on-cloud.git
>>
>> Once setup is done, do "connect headnode" and you can run the
>> swift-cloud-tutorial
>> under your $HOME/swift-on-cloud/swift-cloud-tutorial folder on the
>> headnode instance.
>>
>> Feedback would be much appreciated.
>>
>> PS: Remember to shut-down instances using the "dissolve" command.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Yadu
>>
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