Cloud Computing...
Cloud Computing...
Guys,
has anyone looking into the possibility in hosting condor on the Cloud? like "On Live"??
This would sort out hardware and software issues that i know i have experienced in the pass...it would stop cheaters as they wouldn't be able to amend any of the source code etc...
Possible question to GR?
Cheers,
Sean.
has anyone looking into the possibility in hosting condor on the Cloud? like "On Live"??
This would sort out hardware and software issues that i know i have experienced in the pass...it would stop cheaters as they wouldn't be able to amend any of the source code etc...
Possible question to GR?
Cheers,
Sean.
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Re: Cloud Computing...
Nearly one year we can't get patch which corrects bug in the flight school. And you are talking about new platform...
Re: Cloud Computing...
I was kicking around the idea of using an Amazon EC2 instance to host a server. A large windows instance (7.5GB memory, 4 EC2 compute units, 850 GB instance storage) costs $0.48 an hour: http://aws.amazon.com/windows/
Not sure what the licensing ramifications would be, or how the developers would feel about this...
Not sure what the licensing ramifications would be, or how the developers would feel about this...
Re: Cloud Computing...
TSD,
Not a new platform but somewhere condor can be access over the web... So you wont have hardware or graphic card issues as the severs would provide all of this.... Have a look at a simular solution: - http://www.onlive.co.uk
Cheers,
Sean.
Not a new platform but somewhere condor can be access over the web... So you wont have hardware or graphic card issues as the severs would provide all of this.... Have a look at a simular solution: - http://www.onlive.co.uk
Cheers,
Sean.
Re: Cloud Computing...
I was able to run server on wine runnning ubuntu in a virtual machine (with DSH).gride wrote:I was kicking around the idea of using an Amazon EC2 instance to host a server. A large windows instance (7.5GB memory, 4 EC2 compute units, 850 GB instance storage) costs $0.48 an hour: http://aws.amazon.com/windows/
Not sure what the licensing ramifications would be, or how the developers would feel about this...
But problem is that Condor server requires high IO (disk access) at startup. But disk IO is not the best thing cloud computing is doing.
Re: Cloud Computing...
Hmmm...I see a lot of concern expressed on the AWS forums about disk IO performance (my previous experience has been with compute intensive tasks; CPU limited, no IO bandwidth issues.) Have you tried booting the Condor server on something like an EC2 instance to characterize the performance?snip wrote: I was able to run server on wine runnning ubuntu in a virtual machine (with DSH).
But problem is that Condor server requires high IO (disk access) at startup. But disk IO is not the best thing cloud computing is doing.
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Looks like you don't understand underlying technologies. If you think that it is enough to put Condor somewhere on the web, provide access to registered users and after that everybody will be able to fly utilizing virtual "cloud" hardware and having just picture on their screens then you are mistaken. That "similar solution" you mentioned above is completely different platform as well as completely different software architecture and software design technologies.19 wrote:TSD,
Not a new platform but somewhere condor can be access over the web... So you wont have hardware or graphic card issues as the severs would provide all of this.... Have a look at a simular solution: - http://www.onlive.co.uk
Cheers,
Sean.
Re: Cloud Computing...
I see lots of problems, your Condor experience will only be as good as the speed & quality of your broadband, some here are on 1mb & a few have 100mb most have the best they can get/afford. Poor quality connection at the moment gives warping & possible disconnects both of which are not ideal but don't stop people competing on the other side of the planet, the 'cloud' user on a poor quality connection would have to put up with at times huge input lag & possible disconnects ending his race. I see lag being blamed for every crash into a mountain
Re: Cloud Computing...
I've tested it but not a lot on amazone platform. I worked a lot on OVH one.gride wrote:Have you tried booting the Condor server on something like an EC2 instance to characterize the performance?
A solution was to create ramdisk to put Condor on it ... but this require lot of ram....