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Fura in the cloud

For users who do not want to invest, own, and maintain hardware but need an IT infrastructure to run grid-enabled applications, Fura can now be deployed on a cloud easily, providing the computing capacity in the cloud and allowing scalability, up or down, as requirements change.

Fura in the Cloud has been deployed and is hosted on Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing). Fura is offered as Software as a Service (SaaS), so you only pay for what you use. You decide the magnitude of the grid platform -the amount and type of computing resources- that the application of your choice will use.

Fura in the Cloud is priced following the same policy that Amazon implements. The cost per hour of the default Fura AMI (Amazon Machine Image) is $1.60. The default Fura AMI is an Amazon High-CPU Extra-Large Instance: 8 64-bit virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each, 7 GB of memory and 1690 GB of storage.

Amazon EC2 instances are volatile (temporary and virtual). However, Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Storage) provides permanent, private virtual drives that can be dynamically attached to (and detached from) EC2 instances. The default Fura AMI uses 5GB of this storage to save your grid platform state (configuration, data, modules, tasks, etc). Amazon charges $0.10 per GB per month.

Amazon also charges for some minor operating costs. The use of Fura in the cloud, thus, also has a monthly fee of $0.31 for billing and $0.50 for data storage.

If you are interested in Fura in the Cloud, please follow these steps:

• Create an Amazon Web Services Account.
• Register your Amazon Web Services user to use Fura in Amazon EC2.
• See the information for new users below.

Fura in the Cloud provides you with the following advantages compared to the standard versions of Fura:

• You can scale your grid enabled application as much as the cloud allows you
• You pay only for the resources you actually use.
• You don't have to invest any efforts on installing or updating your grid middleware.

Information for new users

We hope you enjoy your experience with our product. You have a team of qualified engineers at your disposal. Feel free to report any issues you may encounter, make suggestions, or ask technical questions to our support team.

The following document will help you get started with Fura in the Cloud. It explains how to set up and use the script that launches Fura in Amazon EC2 (Fura_EC2.pl).

 Getting Started with Fura in the Cloud

For further information on the Fura objects and functionalities, we recommended you to read Fura Product Tour: a comprehensive tour of Fura functionality and Fura Product Tutorial before proceeding with Fura in the Cloud.

Remember that a Fura platform contains a collection of tools that can be launched from the Portal. All tools come with their own comprehensive user guide, accessible through the Help menu. If you are not familiar with Fura, these user guides will give a complete description of each tool and an explanation on how to use it.