Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources
Questions tagged [cloud-computing]
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What is "Cloud Computing"?
Everywhere I turn, I keep seeing the term "cloud computing". I've done the usual drill of reading Wikipedia, searching around a bit, but it's hard to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Can someone provide a buzzword-free definition of clouding…
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How can I confirm a server instance I have access to truly has provided specifications?
I rented 4 server instances from my friends data center for an extremely cheap price. As advertised, each instance should hold Intel CPUs with 4x cores at 2.6GHz clock frequency each, 8GB of RAM, and 50GB of SATA Drive Memory.
He provided access to…
Dranithix
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Public IP address in Alibaba Cloud instance
Is it possible to assign public IP address to an instance in Alibaba Cloud that would be visible after running
ifconfig
And not assigned via NAT. Need this for provisioning K8s cluster and it doesn't work with NAT IP-addresses.
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Cloud Computing - Multiple Physical Computers, One Logical Computer
I know that you can set up multiple virtual machines per physical computer. I'm wondering if it's possible to make multiple physical computers behave as one logical unit?
Fundamentally the way I imagine it working is that you can throw 10 computers…
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Cloud Computing for HPC
I'm looking into if cloud-computing services (e.g., AWS but others as well) can feasibly supplement the traditional clusters (such as Comet, Stampede2, Pleiades) I've been using to solve fluid dynamics problems.
That is, I'd need to run my code (not…
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Looking for a cloud based NMS similar to monitis but supports OS X
My company is 95% os x and os x server based. Currently we use opennms to do all of our network and server monitoring needs. But we are wanting to offload some of our servers to cloud services and reduce our server footprint.
Does anyone know of a…
Michael
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Standards for cloud computing
Is there any standards for cloud computing platforms?
How is a normal windows platform different from the cloud platform
that microsoft provides ( azure)
How do I write applications that are portable across cloud
platforms?
Like say there is a…
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Cloud-computing for small non-profit
Our small non-profit organizes its tech traditionally - we have a windows file server, do our own backup tapes and pay an arm and a leg to a local IT support vendor. We have 5 staff and the most complicated tech need is a shared MS Access database.…
user16473
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Why can't HybridFox be used to manage Openstack?
I have a question about using HybridFox to manage my Openstack "Cloud" I have successfully installed Openstack and have AMI's up and running via commandline Euca2ools. Can I use HybridFox or ElasticFox to manage my AMI's? I am assuming that…
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Open Nebula / Eucalyptus / Xen Cloud Platform
I am trying to setup a Private Cloud( with features of Amazon EC2 like EIP, EBS and Load Balancing with Multiple Clusters ( with ability to move Clusters/VMs without downtime)
Please share your thoughts
Thanks
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Why is it not possible to go into BIOS on a cloud server?
I am trialling cloudsigma, and they claim to use a KVM Hypervisor. I have a trial server, but cannot boot it from BIOS. Is this the case with all cloud servers?
The company claims I can run Hyper-V or ESX, but I would not be able to without going…
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Cloud Computing IaaS Tools
I would like to know which other tools can help me to set up a private cloud infrastructure but still allow me to connect with services like Amazon EC2 or S3. The ones I know about are:
Nimbus
Open QRM
OpenNebula
Eucalyptus
mongaru
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Paying for cloud server when its powered off?
I am intending to use cloud computer for my test lab. As this will required 4-5 hrs of daily testing, I am looking for a cloud server provider charges at reduced rate (or not at all) if my machines are off.
Can anyone please advice me few names…
Deepak
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Oracle Cloud: Gradle in Compute Arm Instance: jcenter.bintray.com FORBIDDEN
I'm trying to build some project on a free
Canonical-Ubuntu-20.04-aarch64-2021.10.15-0 (ARM machine)
for example launching
./gradlew clean
On this project:
https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava
but I have some problems with the dependencies (seems…
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