On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Jacob Shaw <shawjac...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 1, 5:13 pm, Ken Elkabany <k...@elkabany.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> PiCloud has just released a Python library, cloud, which allows you to >> easily offload the execution of a function to a cluster of servers >> running on Amazon Web Services. As a beta product, we are currently >> free to all users who sign up with beta code "PYTHONLIST". To >> register, go tohttp://www.picloud.com >> >> Full service description: >> PiCloud is a cloud-computing platform that integrates into the Python >> Programming Language. It enables you to leverage the compute power of >> Amazon Web Services without having to manage, maintain, or configure >> virtual servers. >> >> PiCloud integrates seamlessly into your existing code base through a >> custom Python library, cloud. To offload the execution of a function >> to the cloud, all you must do is pass your desired function into the >> cloud library. PiCloud will then run the function on its >> high-performance and automatically-scaling cluster. We quickly scale >> our server capacity, both up and down, to meet your computational >> needs, and only charge you for the resources you actually consume. >> Getting on the cloud has never been this easy! >> >> PiCloud improves the full cycle of software development and >> deployment. Functions that are run on PiCloud have their resource >> usage monitored, performance analyzed, and errors traced; we further >> aggregate all your functions to give you a bird's eye view of your >> service. Through these introspective capabilities, PiCloud enables you >> to develop faster, easier, and smarter. >> >> Common use cases for our platform: >> * Crawling the web >> * Manipulating images and videos >> * Generating charts and graphs >> * Statistical/Mathematical analysis of data sets >> * Real-time data processing >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ken Elkabany >> PiCloud, Inc. > > Wow, amazing service. I used PiCloud for some scraping work, and my > script ran about 10x as fast. > > Some questions though: > 1) I have another project which uses a custom python extension written > in C++. Is there a way to use it on PiCloud? > 2) I noticed you guys only support python 2.5 and 2.6. Will there be > 3.1 support eventually? > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Thanks for the compliments. 1) PiCloud will not automatically transfer libraries that require python C++ extensions. However, in your control panel, you can upload a tarball or synchronize an svn repository that contains your extension's code and we'll automatically compile/install it on our systems. 2) We are currently working on support for python 3.x (we've had requests from a fair number of users), and plan to release a compatible client library in a couple of weeks. Ken -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
