Intro

Please fill the blanks on this page as you start using the Amazon Web Services.

Cost

Pietro's guidance from lab meeting 10/21/2008: compare the cost to your $1000 plane ticket to a conference. $200-300 is reasonable, $10K is not.

Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2
Hadoop is an open source version of Google's MapReduce Framework to distribute data and processing over a large number of machines.
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters. Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. 2004. PDF
- Map-Reduce for Machine Learning on Multicore. Chu et al. NIPS 2007. PDF
- Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering. Das et al. WWW2007. PDF
- Hadoop on Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic MapReduce

You can ask Amazon to put public datasets for free access at Public Datasets on AWS.

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