Say I though I heard something about Mike putting that presentation up on the web, perhaps he just stores it privately on S3 but if its public can you provide a link? Great presentation by the way, a little "markety" but all in all pretty interesting stuff. --j Jeremy wrote: > The next TCLUG meeting is tonight! > > Virtualization was voted the most popular topic at the monthly meetings. In > response, we found a speaker that has an interesting take on virtualization: > Mike Culver from Amazon.com will be visiting TCLUG to give a presentation on > their scalable computing platform and web services! > > This includes a service called EC2. EC2 allows you to upload a special Linux > image (based on Xen I believe), and run it on a cluster. You can rent the > cluster by the boxen-hour, and the servers can dynamically allocate machines > themselves (e.g. a webserver cluster can increase it's size to adapt to > traffic). > > The presentation will also cover a storage clustering service, the Amazon > Mechanical Turk, and other topics. It should be very interesting. The > description below has full details. > > Date: Wed, Sept 5th > Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm > University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus, EE/CSci Building , Room: 3-210 > 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis 55455 > > Topics: > Intro > Main presentation > Amazon Web Services (scalable computing) > Mike Culver, Web Services Evangelist, Amazon.com (AWS) > General Q&A and discussion > As time may permit > Adjourn to local restaurant or coffee shop > > Links: > aws.amazon.com/ec2 > aws.amazon.com/s3 > aws.amazon.com/mturk > > ----------- Detailed Description ------------ > What's possible in a post Web 2.0 world? Innovation continues at a > mind-bending pace, and this presentation will showcase some thought-provoking > new directions that Web Services are headed in. The presentation will provide > an overview of Amazon Web Services, including a Web Service named Mechanical > Turk that allows computers to make requests of people, an online storage > service, a Virtual Server service, and more. There will also be a demo > showing how to set up the virtual server. But mostly this will be an > opportunity to have a discussion about innovation and entrepreneurial tools. > > Amazon spent ten years developing a world-class technology and content > platform that powers Amazon web sites for millions of customers every day. > Most people think "Amazon.com" when they hear the word; however developers > are excited to learn that there is a separate technology arm of the company, > known as Amazon Web Services or AWS. Using AWS, developers can build software > applications leveraging the same robust, scalable, and reliable technology > that powers Amazon's retail business. AWS has now launched ten services with > open APIs for developers to build applications, with the result that over > 265,000 developers have registered on Amazon's developer site to create > applications based on these services.. > > About the Speaker > Mike Culver joined the Developer Relations Group of Amazon Web Services in > May, 2006. Mike brings with him fifteen years of technology leadership > experience, including at companies such as Microsoft. In addition Mr. Culver > has a strong background running an IT organization, with over a decade of > experience in the Electrical Wholesale Distribution industry. As a Web > Services Evangelist at Amazon, he helps developers take advantage of > disruptive technologies that are going to change the way we think about > computer applications, and the way that businesses compete. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >