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

[Ketan Maheshwari]

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:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/06/25/google-dumps-mapreduce-favor-new-hyper-scale-analytics-system

--
Ketan


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Ian Foster <foster at anl.gov> wrote:

> 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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