Guy Tel-Zur's Blog

Next time you will need computing resources, e.g. a web server, get it from the cloud, it is simple and easy! This post is not meant to be a full tutorial but only a brief description of my own personal experience playing with Amazon EC2. For more complete information about working with Amazon EC2 check this or this references or browse here for additional documentation Step 1: Create an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) account. Pricing and additional information is available here . Step 2: Download the Amazon command line API tools and/or install the Elasticfox - Firefox plug-in . Step 3: Set the security keys to allow SSH. Step 4: Configure the Elasticfox (for example open port 22 for SSH and port 80 for http in my case). Step 5. I used one of the pre-configured Amazon Machine Images (AMI), therefore starting the machine was immediate. Step 6: Enjoy the new virtual machine - see screen shots below: Figure 1: The Amazon Elasticfox GUI. Figure 2: Connecting to the machine via S...

I left Madison today after a visit of a week. A great city, a great university and great people. I Hope to visit there again soon.

Grids are Dead! Or are they? By Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA; Duke University. Published in GridToday, June 16, 2008. See also one of my previous posts: " The End of Grid Computing? " from October 2007.

The following instructions apply for connecting from outside the campus: Step 1: VPN access: Install CheckPoint SNX VPN tool ( S SL N etwork e X tender) for Linux. ( the current version I installed works with OpenSuse 10.3 but crashes for Fedora core 9 ) telzur@gtz2:~> snx -s vpn.bgu.ac.il -u username@vpn then provide your PIN and the Secure-ID code. Step 2: Connect to the Windows terminal server using remote-desktop: telzur@gtz2:~> rdesktop -u user-name -d group-of-users remote-host.bgu.ac.il and you will get this window to login:

I would like to recommend watching the following on-line presentation: InfoQ: Erlang - software for a concurrent world by joe Amstrong, Erlang's principle inventor. These days I am also reading his book . Erlang is interesting and intrguing