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Exploring Amazon EC2 for Scale-out Applications

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2569362/Exploring-Amazon-EC2-for-Scaleout-Applications very interesting post from people who have done benchmarking and testing amazon EC2 platform

kelemen-2007-C5-Silent_Corruptions.pdf (application/pdf Object)

http://fuji.web.cern.ch/fuji/talk/2007/kelemen-2007-C5-Silent_Corruptions.pdf Interesting paper about data corruption from CERN. Basically they did verify that when you write a file to a disk, it not always come back the way it was written. …. so …. you have been warned ;-)