Lets say i have an array like such $artist = array("the roots","michael jackson","billy idol","more","and more","and_YET_MORE"); $count = array(5,3,9,1,1,3); and i want to generate a tag clound that will have artist with a higher number in count be a H6 tag and the lowest being H1? any ideas? ...
I've come to love Amazon's EC2 service and I'm looking for something similar that supports the ability to save a running Windows server image and start new instances from it. I contacted GoGrid (the feature is planned in future) and Mosso (no joy) Anyone know of any hosting/cloud providers that can dothis? ...
Is Amazon Web Services a realistic platform for Enterprise Development? ...
I read a lot about the possibilities of Amazons Cloud computing, like S3 or EC2 and I wondered if someone actually uses this for mission-critical applications. Do you host your company website in the cloud? Do you store files there? Do you run your build servers in the cloud? There are already some services like Scalr or WeoCeo that cou...
After stumbling into Amazon Web Services again I have finally checked their prices and am shocked. Positively. With their flexible billing and extremely low prices, is there any reason for still using a dedicated hosting for a website? The only one I can think of is keeping sensitive data confined to the intranet - but for publicly acces...
Although somewhat related to this question, I have what I think is a different take on it. Is a desktop app that has no connections to the "cloud" dead? I believe that some things are going to continue to be on the machine (operating systems obviously, browsers, some light-weight applications), but more and more things are moving to net...
Hello everybody, I am trying to solve the current problem using GPU capabilities: "given a point cloud P and an oriented plane described by a point and a normal (Pp, Np) return the points in the cloud which lye at a distance equal or less than EPSILON from the plane". Talking with a colleague of mine I converged toward the following so...
Could anybody explain in plain words how Cloud computing works? I have read the Wikipedia article, but still not sure that I understand how cloud actually works. ...
What alternatives are there to GAE, given that I already have a good bit of code working that I would like to keep. In other words, I'm digging python. However, my use case is more of a low number of requests, higher CPU usage type use case, and I'm worried that I may not be able to stay with App Engine forever. I have heard a lot of ...
1 am thinking of hosting a python based app on Amazon EC2. It will be really helpful to know the cost of an EC2 and S3 combo. Does typical ($7/month) shared hosting compare to the bandwidth cost + EC2 1 instance + S3 storage? (will the cost difference be minimal?) I understand that all this varies, Can you share your cost/month and your ...
We're looking into developing a product that would use Amazon's cloud tools (EC2, SQS, etc), and I'm curious what tips/gotchas/pointers people that have used these technologies have. One tip/whatever per post, please. ...
I'm looking for tools that implement the distributed agent/service model ... I guess we could also call this grid or cloud computing, but I'm not sure the term is exactly analagous. A distributed agent model would be one where developers build agents that are dispatched to a framework and the framework executes the agent somewhere in th...
Has anyone got much experience deploying applications to Amazons EC2? I am considering doing this in future and wonder about peoples experiences compared to shared hosting and dedicated server hosting are. ...
Very simple question, is there any cloud server enviroments avaliable these days for us .NET guys that rivals Amazons ec2? EDIT: PDC 2008 looks like there are some very interesting info, and only 4 days 2 hours to wait :-). Looks like I need to get saving fast for the conference fee though. ...
Is it possible to have all the computing capacity of all the hardware nodes allocated to one instance (for eg. one basic linux installation)? How to manage the cloud? ...
I have a site that users upload images to. Those images are resized to various dimensions. I currently do that on my server, but was thinking of processing that on AWS or something similar. Is that a good idea? ...
I just watched the Windows Azure intro video and it left me feeling like it was a front end shell for hosted IIS instances. Can anyone who know more (possibily that was part of the beta) shed on why you would use this vs. EC2. it seemed easy enough but really didnt give specifics on how it works, why it works or why you would use this v...
It appears from their marketing literature that their new Windows with SQL option on EC2 has the SQL licensing costs bundled into their instance charges, but I'd hate to make assumptions. Has anyone here that has actually used a SQL instance on EC2 confirm/deny that the SQL Licensing costs are bundled into the instance chanrges from Am...
I am looking at the pricing of various cloud computing platforms, particularly Amazon's EC2, and a lot of the quotes are based on a unit called an Instance-Hour. I am trying to get a handle on the exact definition of an instance-hour to better compare the costs of continuing to host a web-application versus putting it out on the cloud....
I have many unused computers at home. What would be the easiest way for me to utilize them to parallelize my C# program with little or no code changes? The task I'm trying to do involves looping through lots of english sentences, the dataset can be easily broken into smaller chunks, processed in different machines concurrently. ...