[OAM-talk] Moving forward (was: Completing the OAM PSC electionprocess)

[Anthony]

2009/12/10 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>

> 2009/12/10 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>
>
>> El Jueves, 10 de Diciembre de 2009, Jeffrey Johnson escribió:
>> > This all jives with my experience doing this same sort of thing.
>> >
>> > Processing (reprojection and tiling) can also be offloaded to Amazon
>> > as well by using many instances in parallel (the way I usually do it).
>> >
>> > Serving is not the issue, we just need disk and bandwidth, CPU and
>> > Memory are not horribly important here.
>>
>> <crazyidea>
>>
>> Maybe we could do distributed computing for the reprojection, tiles at home
>> style? Something like "aerial at home"?
>>
>> </crazyidea>
>>
>
> One issue there is that there's a lot more data to download than
> tiles at home.  How long would it take to download the preprocessed data
> compared to processing it?
>
> Also, how would we obtain the preprocessed data?  Do we have to order it on
> disk, or is there a way we might be able to have each node download it from
> someone else's server?  If the latter, tiles at home style might make sense,
> but we'd need permission otherwise it could be seen as a DDOS attack.
>

Along those lines, maybe something a little less distributed?  Mail out
1-1.5 terabyte hard drives with an appropriate amount of raw data, have the
sponsor process the data and mail it back?
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