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> As an additional note, they claim that both capital and
> running costs of of their archival pods is 1/5 that of
> somewhat similar Dell hw, and a minuscule fraction that of
> Amazon space, *at scale*:
> http://blog.backblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/pod20-cost-of-a-petabyte-amazon-dell.jpg
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Some HPC bio people have been doing testing of rentable clusters
on EC2, with various setups, including for example NFS and
GlusterFS storage:
http://bioteam.net/2010/07/exploring-the-new-aws-compute-cluster-ec2-instances/
Not advocating Amazon's services; some of the tests listed above
may be of general interest, for example trying out XFS and
GlusterFS, and the latter may be interesting in the future for
GridPP like Ceph and others mentioned by the storage group, or
perhaps more now that it is part of Red Hat.
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