Cloud Computing has been really hogging my life since quite a long time. I was suggested by some alumni last semester, that I go ahead and read about it. linuxNUS (me) had organised a talk with Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services back in November. Though I could not attend it, I got a chance to listen to him and meet him personally at a C3216 talk. Awesome stuff :)
So I actually first get the experience of actually using Cloud Computing (from here, referred to as CC) for my facebook application for CS3216. Amazon Web Services supported the CS3216 group by providing us EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing) for hosting and setting up our facebook application. They gave $100USD to each team.
It was actually more than hosting and an awesome experience in setting up an instance. I even tried out setting up a community AMI- Ubuntu 9.04 from scratch as a LAMP server and set up an Etherpad.com instance - 13 hrs of struggle in strange waters of Java and Scala. I have been using Virtual Machine (VM) since a long time. I run Ubuntu, OpenSolaris on Win7. So working under linux environment is my best known playground :)
CC is coming to hog me even more. I am doing a CG1413 module Problem Solving project on Introducing CC in NUS. I have a good team of 3 more people, and fortunately we have found the main guy behind cloud computing in NUS. Meeting him this Wednesday. I am getting even more reasons to delve into CC as I recently found a book "Cloud Computing for Dummies" in the Central Library and it is damn latest!! Just launched a week back! Gobbling it down right away.
So this semester is all about Computing in the Cloud. Looking forward to an amazing learning experience!
I will soon be back writing all about CC that I can find through talks, surveys and experience!
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