DataSynapse on Amazon EC2 February 12, 2009
Posted by James Webster in : finance, virtualization, development , trackbackDataSynapse have just announced a service and beta program for running their grid computing platform on the Amazon EC2 service (press release here). It is only open to existing DataSynapse customers but those who do sign up will be able to run the DataSynapse engine on as many EC2 instances without incurring licensing costs during the beta period, just the CPU and transfer fees from Amazon.
In my experience DataSynapse is the grid vendor with the greatest market share in the financial services sector. I sometimes wonder why however; deployment of gridlibs can sometimes be flakey and the administration interface leaves a little to be desired (although to be fair I haven’t seen the very latest GUI). Still its good to see the major grid computing vendor supporting Amazon EC2 as a first-class host for their software. The open-source Java grid platform GridGain are allegedly working on deep EC2 integration and it will be interesting to see what they come up with.
A few other interesting and unrelated tid-bits:
- Wolfram Research announced a Home Edition of Mathematica but only available in the US and Canada for some inexplicable reason at present.
- Announced late last year was VMware Studio, an interesting looking tool for building virtual appliances, similar I guess to CohesiveFT’s Elastic Server On-Demand. Given that command line tools are available it would be interesting to think how you might integrate this into a continuous integration build perhaps, Organic Element and Will DeHaan have some similar ideas.
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