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Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources

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Does either Rackspace or AWS provide APIs for billing information?

By billing, I mean real-time usage and consumption statistics - the API for which can be used to generate custom reports, forecast expenditure, etc. I see that AWS has the facility to generate custom reports pertaining to usage that they export as a…
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EC2 Configuration

I am trying to create a server structure for my EC2 account. The design I have chosen consists of 2 instances running in different availability zones, elastic load balancer, an auto-scaling group with cloudwatch monitoring configured and a security…
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Cloudify - install-application: Application installation timed out?

Continue from this topic, I'm stopping at step 4: cloudify@default> install-application --verbose -timeout 10 /usr/local/src/gigaspaces-cloudify-2.1.0-ga/recipes/apps/petclinic-simple Validating file petclinic-simple Uploading application…
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RemoteError: Remote error: NoMoreNetworks

I get this error when I try to start the machine. There are free IP addresses (both floating and fixed). I tried to look about it on the web, but no luck (there is an answer somewhere which doesnt solve my problem). Here the entire traceback:…
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LAMP-based "cloud" hosts like Mosso/Rackspace Cloud Sites and Cartika HAL?

next to Rackspace's Cloud Sites and Cartika's HAL, are there any other web hosts that run hosted sites on real app server and database clusters (this excludes MediaTemple) and support PHP/Perl and MySQL (this excludes GAE)?
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Can my company benefit from cloud computing?

I have read Wikipedia articles, etc., but I have a small engineering firm. We're a machine vision integrator. For some reason, it was suggested that if we offered a "cloud" -- whatever that is -- that we'd be one of a kind and it'd help our…
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EC2 Image to start

I'm starting to test EC2 for a couple of new projects. I need to choose an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) and Amazon offered me as first option Fedora Core 8, which is a very old version of one of my favorites distributions. There is a lot of choices,…
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Distribute the load all around the world

Let's say we're starting a project which is meant to be served all around the world How am I supposed to distribute the database and server load, and increase (optimize) the service for large audience? I know about reverse proxy, load balance, using…
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Using Opennebula as an IaaS: Running benchmark accross all nodes, possibe?

Our current situation: We have one Opennebula cloud infrastructure consisting of a cluster controller and 6 cluster nodes configured and working. All Nodes run debian instances on top of a kvm hypervisor. We have done this as a part of a school…
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What components should I purchase at AWS?

This might sound silly question, but it is a real problem which I need help in regards. Unlike "normal" VPS providers I used to such as linode.com and slicehost.com, at AWS they have all those fancy made up words which each require looking at their…
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what are the alternatives (OSS,commercial) for virtual machine life-cycle management?

likes of VMware lab manager: desired feature list: Self-Service: rapid-delpoy-VMs configuration management: clone, snapshot VM good to have: hypervisor agnostic storage lease user access - role based cap on resources
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Using ubuntu cloud-init to setup logging to splunk

I intend to start up ~100 EC2 spot instances using Canonical's Ubuntu images. I am using multipart cloud-init user-data to setup packages, scripts, etc. I would like to know how I can tell rsyslog to log to a splunk server (actually a splunk storm…
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AWS EC2 EBS Microinstance Storage and Djangostack

I'm moving my person webpage to an Amazon EC2 free (for now) micro instance, and want to clarify some things. Since the micro instance does not have any "local storage", when i am installing apache, django, mysql, etc., where is it going? Does it…
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How many cpus needed to check a 100 million digit prime number efficiently?

If I had access to potentially large number of CPUs and wanted to quickly check 100 million digit numbers for primality using a map-reduce architecture, how many CPUs would be necessary? Each of the mapped compute instances would perform efficient…
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Server architecture for statistical analysis

I am currently standing before a decision on how to design a system that would handle computing of statistical data on the cloud. I would like to know what server structure should I use to be able to easily scale computing with the cloud. To be…
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