Amazon Betas 'Elastic' Grid Computing Service

RebornData writes "I receieved an e-mail this morning inviting me to participate in a limited beta of Amazon EC2: the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. It's a grid computing service that allows you to create and upload your own Linux-based machine images and run them in Amazon's system, starting at $.10 per "instance hour" (each machine instance being equivalent to a 1.7GHz Xeon with 1.75GB of RAM, and 160GB disk). You can use their tools to create and start new instances dynamically to meet whatever your particular capacity needs are at any given moment. Fedora Core 3 and 4 are explicitly supported, but any distro based on the 2.6 kernel should work. The service documentation provides more technical details. Unfortunately, it appears that the beta is limited to existing Amazon S3 users, and is already full."

Comments

gah?

[tomstdenis]

1.7Ghz Xeon?

tom@bigbox ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo  | grep "model name"
model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 885
model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 885
model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 885
model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 885

1.75GB of ram?
tom@bigbox ~ $ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       6104840     700028    5404812          0      62092     399356

No thank you.  :-)

Tom