http://mndoci.disqus.com/At the interface of science and computingenSun, 08 Oct 2006 11:15:22 -0000http://mndoci.com/2006/10/07/things-i-noticed-8/#comment-1291446<p>I missed Pierre's gadget. Thanks</p><p>I love the Amazon projects. So far the idea has been to promote them to small enterprises as you point out. It's the private angle that I found very very interesting. I wonder how far away you and I are from having our Sun Grid Engine or Amazon S3/EC2 accounts.</p><p>Unrelated fields is probably a good thing. These IT types get to have all the fun otherwise :).</p>Deepak SinghSun, 08 Oct 2006 11:15:22 -0000http://mndoci.com/2006/10/07/things-i-noticed-8/#comment-1291447<p>Pierre from YAKAFON also made an <a href="http://plindenbaum.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-gadget-for-bioinformatics.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://plindenbaum.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-gadget-for-bioinformatics.html">interesting Google gadget</a>.</p><p>I really like the ideas around the Amazon scalable IT products. They also rent out processing power with their EC2 product. Sun also has a grid service for anyone interested on scalable processing. This goes in a trend of outsourcing the IT department. Instead of having to manage servers on your company/research institute maybe it makes more sense to rent it as need arises from someone. Maybe for private owners it is still early but for most medium size groups this is likely a good option right now.</p><p>Maybe we should try to right a wiki review :) the problem is that we are all from slightly unrelated fields.</p>pedrobeltraoSun, 08 Oct 2006 10:04:50 -0000