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September 10, 2013 03:29 am GMT
The cloud computing services from Amazon, Microsoft and others make it possible for businesses to access a virtually unlimited amount of compute power for their applications. What’s hard, however, is to orchestrate all of the distributed infrastructure, provision the right instances and to maintain these setups. Portland, OR-based startup CPUsage, which is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 today, wants to turn compute into a utility in order to help developers, scientists and researchers to use high-performance computing in the cloud without the need to spend months on setting up their infrastructure. As CPUsage’s co-founders Jeff Martens and Matt Wallington told me, the idea behind the service is to allow anybody to take their existing applications and then allow them to run on virtually any cloud computing service available, whether that’s AWS, Microsoft’s Azure or one of their competitors. That’s still in the future, though. What the company is launching today is support for AWS, with support for Azure and Google’s Compute Engine coming by the end of the calendar year. All of this sounds very technical, but it solves a real problem for many businesses that rely on high-performance computing in the cloud. As Martens noted, a biotech company he talked to often has to analyze up to 100 million molecules per week for the big pharmaceutical corporations that are its clients. That’s a highly compute-intensive job that can take up to 8 million hours of compute time in total. To do that, the company spins up thousands of cloud-based compute instances, but it took them months to build the infrastructure and write their own app-specific APIs and job status dashboards to run these. Then, once everything is in place, it can take another couple of hours just to get everything up and running for this batch of molecules. With CPUsage, Martens argues, it would take them fewer than 20 minutes to create the same kind of setup. While getting started with the service isn’t trivial, it should be pretty easy to do for most developers. CPUsage essentially sets up a sandboxed server (which could run any flavor of Linux and development environment) and the user then logs into it and installs the application. Then, CPUsage’s API builder takes over and creates a custom API that the developers can then hook into to submit the compute jobs. Once the job runs, users can monitor it through a dashboard, and
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CPUsage Makes It Easier To Harness The Cloud's Compute Power
The cloud computing services from Amazon, Microsoft and others make it possible for businesses to access a virtually unlimited amount of compute power for their applications. What’s hard, however, is to orchestrate all of the distributed infrastructure, provision the right instances and to maintain these setups. Portland, OR-based startup CPUsage, which is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 today, wants to turn compute into a utility in order to help developers, scientists and researchers to use high-performance computing in the cloud without the need to spend months on setting up their infrastructure. As CPUsage’s co-founders Jeff Martens and Matt Wallington told me, the idea behind the service is to allow anybody to take their existing applications and then allow them to run on virtually any cloud computing service available, whether that’s AWS, Microsoft’s Azure or one of their competitors. That’s still in the future, though. What the company is launching today is support for AWS, with support for Azure and Google’s Compute Engine coming by the end of the calendar year. All of this sounds very technical, but it solves a real problem for many businesses that rely on high-performance computing in the cloud. As Martens noted, a biotech company he talked to often has to analyze up to 100 million molecules per week for the big pharmaceutical corporations that are its clients. That’s a highly compute-intensive job that can take up to 8 million hours of compute time in total. To do that, the company spins up thousands of cloud-based compute instances, but it took them months to build the infrastructure and write their own app-specific APIs and job status dashboards to run these. Then, once everything is in place, it can take another couple of hours just to get everything up and running for this batch of molecules. With CPUsage, Martens argues, it would take them fewer than 20 minutes to create the same kind of setup. While getting started with the service isn’t trivial, it should be pretty easy to do for most developers. CPUsage essentially sets up a sandboxed server (which could run any flavor of Linux and development environment) and the user then logs into it and installs the application. Then, CPUsage’s API builder takes over and creates a custom API that the developers can then hook into to submit the compute jobs. Once the job runs, users can monitor it through a dashboard, andOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/pzmZFi8GXHM/
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