Data sets in the cloud

[Guy Rixon]

Matthew,

I've not run anything in the cloud, but I know that one division of  
Gaia DPAC has run a reduction pipeline there. They find that no only  
is it technically feasible, but it's actually economic to do so.  
However, their task is CPU-bound and light on I/O. If we put web  
services there we'd have to think of the I/O charges.

Cheers,
Guy

On 1 Oct 2009, at 01:24, Matthew Graham wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You might have seen that a 180GB chunk of SDSS DR6 has appeared in  
> the Amazon EC2 cloud. Is anyone interested in leading a discussion  
> at Interop about VO and data sets in the cloud? Do we need new  
> standards? Is this something that we should be getting into?
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew