In the valley

On today's plane, an old lady told me about the history of the silicon valley. I'm wondering if the same thing will happen to RTP, hehe. Her son, who works at Cisco, has an opinion that security is a major issue for cloud computing, which I agree. However, the issue does not exist if we use cloud computing for scientific research, does it?

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...