Showing posts with label amazon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amazon. Show all posts
Monday, July 11, 2011
+Computation: Got an AWS in Education grant!
I just received a generous grant for usage on Amazon's Web Services -- cloud computing, storage space, and bandwidth. This is just in time for a bunch of heavy-duty text crunching I've been planning to do. Thank you, Amazon!
Monday, April 25, 2011
The best $5 I've spent all year
I finally started using Amazon's EC2 yesterday. I've been meaning to learn it forever, but assumed it would be time-consuming to get registered, set up an instance, and so on.
Not true. Thursday morning at 10am, I registered for EC2. By 10:30 I had an instance of Drew Conway's Py/R AMI up and running, with several additional libraries installed, and a few GB of data I wanted to crunch uploaded to the server. Very fast turnaround.
Eight hours and $4.77 later, I'd crunched a lot of numbers -- by far my most productive workflow all week. Highly recommend it.
Not true. Thursday morning at 10am, I registered for EC2. By 10:30 I had an instance of Drew Conway's Py/R AMI up and running, with several additional libraries installed, and a few GB of data I wanted to crunch uploaded to the server. Very fast turnaround.
Eight hours and $4.77 later, I'd crunched a lot of numbers -- by far my most productive workflow all week. Highly recommend it.
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