Cluster Environments

[Calmera]

During the last meetup we came to discuss the possibilities of having some cluster hardware to our disposal so we can have a platform for the hackatons and to try things out.

I remember Nathan saying something about Sara in the Netherlands and Marc suggesting to ask AppsForGhent. Are there any other channels we can contact which would be interested to allow us to use their hardware for some bigdata processing?

Daan.

[Wim Van Leuven]

sizingservers.be
ibm.be

Maybe some hosting provider like nucleus.com with their cloudia.be proposal?
Or a hardware provider like A-server.com with daas.com?

[Gabriele Bozzi]

Hi,

Sara might not be an option if the project is not involved in
research.

However I well check through my contacts there.

[Gabriele Bozzi]

I was wondering if a Social network like Netlog might not be willing
to lend their spare machines. There is some juice there.

I, from my side, will be happy to lend my little cluster but you are
limited to 5 or 6 nodes and perhaps we should add some disks (I can
find a DC that colocates them in exchange of some exposure)

If anybody is interested in this proposal let me know.

Gabriele

On Aug 26, 5:28 pm, Calmera <daan.ger...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Klaas Bosteels]

We do indeed have a fair bit of hardware I guess, but we also have pretty strict security regulations so giving external people access to any of our servers is very unlikely to happen I'm afraid. I think I would simply try to gather some money (from sponsors or just donations by participants) and rent a few EC2 instances for a couple of hours. Amazon already provides several big data sets to play around with on AWS (http://aws.amazon.com/datasets), so you should be able to get started right away there and wouldn't have to wait and/or pay for any data set assembling.

-K