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

[Ian Foster]

Nice. This would be a great use case for linking credit card info into Globus Nexus authentication. (Once we get to that.)


On Jun 27, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Yadu Nand Babuji <yadunand at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> 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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