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Easing the Transistion from Traditional Grid Computing to the Cloud

Ease the transition from traditional grid computing to cloud computing with Sun Grid Engine (SGE) 6.2 Update 3, which features a Service Domain Manager (SDM) Cloud Adapter that provides an interface to manage Amazon’s EC2 Amazon Machine Images (AMI). It also features Initial Power Saving support that uses the existing features of the Service Domain Manager to extract information about the ideal size of a cluster according to demand. The ability to flexibly add execution hosts as needed on demand delivers power and cooling cost savings.

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The VirtualGuru blog has posted a “warm welcome” for OpenSolaris 2008.05 on Amazon EC2 by offering a few helpful hints on how to get started:

Hands-on Experience: OpenSolaris on Amazon AWS (EC2 and S3)

• Creating OpenSolaris based JeOS
• JeOS on OpenSolaris Nevada line
• Netboot install of OpenSolaris Nevada line
• FreeWare SW for OpenSolaris Nevada line
• OpenSolaris 2008.05 released
• JeOS on OpenSolaris Indiana line
• Installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 into xVM or XEN VM in PARA mode
• Determining OpenSolaris 200805 CLI JeOS RNJS conf
• Creating OpenSolaris CLI JeOS RNJS by Uninstall
• Instalation of IPS freeware SW into OpenSolaris or Indiana

Pre-Prepared AMI images plus Inst&Conf hits

• Pre-build SXDE79 JeOS RNJS AMI images
  • AMI Evaluation Image: Liferay on Glassfish bundle DEMO
  • AMI Developer Image: Glassfish & MySQL bundle from Java EE
  • AMI Composite Image: Empty SXDE79 JeOS RNJS + S3 Glassfish V3 TP2 update

Amazon AWS (EC2, S3) useful tools and libs

• GUI tools for Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) - Usefull Firefox Plugins