{"id":893,"date":"2012-10-21T12:18:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T10:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2012\/10\/21\/amazon-web-services"},"modified":"2022-09-26T20:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:22:29","slug":"amazon-web-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2012\/10\/21\/amazon-web-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Web Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">We're currently looking at running some tests on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\">Amazon Web Services<\/a>\u00a0to quantify the price difference between running jobs locally vs running them in a production cloud. \u00a0Applicants would be researchers who are currently using ICTS HPC services and non-proprietary\u00a0software.<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Bandwidth will have to be taken into account as well as any data to be analysed or retrieved will have to be moved between the U.S. and South Africa. \u00a0The softwareOS can be linux based (Red Hat or SUSE) or Microsoft. \u00a0The estimated duration of the test would be in the region of 7 to 14 days and would incur a financial cost for UCT which ICTS would cover.<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">If you're willing to take part in the test please let us know. \u00a0Please also include a brief description of your OS, software and estimated data transfer size.<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aws.jpg\" alt=\"aws\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>We&#8217;re currently looking at running some tests on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\">Amazon Web Services<\/a>&nbsp;to quantify the price difference between running jobs locally vs running them in a production cloud. &nbsp;Applicants would be researchers who are currently using ICTS HPC services and non-proprietary&nbsp;software.<\/div>\n<div>Bandwidth will have to be taken into account as well as any data to be analysed or retrieved will have to be moved between the U.S. and South Africa. &nbsp;The softwareOS can be linux based (Red Hat or SUSE) or Microsoft. &nbsp;The estimated duration of the test would be in the region of 7 to 14 days and would incur a financial cost for UCT which ICTS would cover.<\/div>\n<div>If you&#8217;re willing to take part in the test please let us know. &nbsp;Please also include a brief description of your OS, software and estimated data transfer size.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uct.ac.za\/gallery\/1253\/aws.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"aws\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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