Your own 1TB of Ram Ubuntu server, courtesy of Amazon EC2
Posted by John on January 21st, 2010
Eric Hammond did some pretty neat work here.
1 TB of Memory in 1 Minute with 1 Command – By Eric Hammond on October 27, 2009 1:38 AM
Amazon Web Services just announced the release of two new instance types for EC2. These new types have 34.2 GB and 68.4 GB of RAM with a decent amount of CPU capacity on modern CPUs to go along with it.
But when it comes to flexing the raw power at my fingertips with AWS, sometimes I can’t help myself. So…
sitting on my couch with my laptop watching an episode of “Lie to me” on TiVo I just typed:
ec2-run-instances \
–instance-type m2.4xlarge \
–key KEYPAIR \
–instance-count 19 \
ami-e6f6158f
and in under a minute and about $45 later, I had ssh access to well over 1 TB (1,000 GB) of free memory. To be sure, it was spread over 19 Ubuntu servers, but still, there’s gotta be something I can do with that, no?
(click here to view more of Eric’s explorations . . .)
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