Playing with NFS & GlusterFS on Amazon cc1.4xlarge EC2 instance types
Experimenting with shared filesystems on the Amazon cc1.4xlarge EC2 “compute cluster” instance types.
Tag: "cc1.4xlarge"
Exploring the new AWS Compute Cluster EC2 Instances
Note: Depending on how you found this post, it might be helpful to understand our own personal & professional biases. We are bioinformatics and HPC types specializing in life sciences, not people trying to build the next twitter or facebook. What we care about when it comes to AWS performance may not be what YOU [...]
Jul 19, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Local storage performance of AWS cluster compute instances
Lots more data collected over the weekend as we were finally able to run bonnie++ against the local boot disk as well as single and striped versions of the ephermeral storage volumes that come along with every cc1.4xlarge instance type. Key Results: Performance of the root/boot disk is way slower than any other type of [...]
Jul 19, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Preliminary EBS performance on Amazon Compute Cluster cc1.4xlarge instance types
Post Update History: July 13th – Original post July 14th – More results from cc1.4xlarge single-disk & initial results from c1.xlarge instance type, uploaded new version of the raw data spreadsheet to Google Docs. Updated all graphs. July 19th – Lots more data (including ephemeral storage) added to the raw data spreadsheet on Google Docs [...]
Jul 13, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
