IGT 2008 - Cloud Computing Conference
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IGT2008 - The World Summit of Cloud Computing
IGT2008 - The World Summit of Cloud Computing conference registration is now open. IGT is pleased to announce the opening of registration for the IGT2008 conference to be held in Israel on 1-2 December 2008. http://www.cloudcomputing.org. il/ IGT2008 will focus on Cloud Computing, and its impact on the enterprise IT, the next generation data center, SaaS and Utility Computing. This year, keynote speakers will include top technology leaders from companies that are creating and influencing the Cloud Computing technologies and business. Early Bird prices are available until 16 October therefore it is advised to register in advance! See you at IGT2008! Cloud Computing - The New IT Economy Avner Algom General Manager The Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT) www.Grid.org.il
Cloud Computing - A case study
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...
Farewell Madison Wisconsin
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?
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.