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.
For further information about Fura before continuing, we recommended you to read
Fura Product Tour: a comprehensive tour of Fura functionality and
Fura Product Tutorial.
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.
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.
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