AWS and EC2

Today I registered an account for Amazon's web service (AWS). I spent some time reading about their EC2 service. It seems very powerful. How about starting up a company with a bunch of smart parallel-programming guys to provide service to other companies or government institutes? You know, not everyone affords to buy a RoadRunner, haha...

Also read this article about the hypothetical competitor for AWS. It would be cool if the companies can compete and offer free services :) I would love to try them out. I really hope the cloud computing market grow fast. Thank about it, petabytes of data flying around, awaiting my ideas to become faster~~~ Just a little day dreaming, hoho

Career path for OR students

Yesterday Dr. Agrawal from DASTURCO gave a talk about how OR students should select a career path. It seems business consulting leveraging OR background is an interesting choice. I should read more about it.

On starting my own Fedora project

Today Michael DeHaan from Red Hat gave a talk about starting projects in the Fedora open source community. Before I forget, these are two important links:

1. applying for accounts: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
2. Fedora planet (for discussion): http://planet.fedoraproject.org/

I'm thinking, why not import our speed-aware file system techniques into an open source product? One issue I need to think about is, while most other projects in the community is on the application level, our techniques are on done directly to the kernel...