- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:27:27 -0500
- To: "रविंदर ठाकुर (ravinder thakur)" <ravinderthakur@gmail.com>
- CC: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
रविंदर ठाकुर (ravinder thakur) wrote: > my suggestion is that lets just collect few 100$ (10$ each ?) and > purchase a EC2 machine upload it with _all_ semantic data, run a > sparql endpoint on it and keep it running for everyone's use. fwiw - I already indicated that the following is about to happen: 1. All of LOD in an instance deployed like the current DBpedia instance (from our data center) as per <http://b3s.openlinksw.com/> (that already has 11 Billion Triples in it and simply needs an update re. DBpedia 3.2 and a few other data sets from LOD) 2. For those that have personal or service specific needs, a replica will be on EC2 (as we've done with DBpedia). Current roadmap re. EC2: 1. DBpedia - done 2. Neurocommons - WIP 3. Bio2RDF - WIP 4. Entier LOD Data Set collection - WIP Of course, you can also put together the scheme you are suggesting also via donation etc. The approaches the better (imho). Kingsley > > > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Kingsley Idehen > <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote: > > > Hugh Glaser wrote: > > Thanks for the swift response! > I'm still puzzled - sorry to be slow. > http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#2 > Says: > Amazon EC2 customers can access this data by creating their > own personal Amazon EBS volumes, using the public data set > snapshots as a starting point. They can then access, modify > and perform computation on these volumes directly using their > Amazon EC2 instances and just pay for the compute and storage > resources that they use. > Does this not mean it costs me money on my EC2 account? Or is > there some other way of accessing the data? Or am I looking at > the wrong bit? > > > Okay, I see what I overlooked: the cost of paying for an AMI that > mounts these EBS volumes, even though Amazon is charging $0.00 for > uploading these huge amounts of data where it would usually charge. > > So to conclude, using the loaded data sets isn't free, but I think > we have to be somewhat appreciative of a value here, right? Amazon > is providing a service that is ultimately pegged to usage (utility > model), and the usage comes down to value associated with that > scarce resource called time. > > Ie Can you give me a clue how to get at the data without using > my credit card please? :-) > > > You can't you will need someone to build an EC2 service for you > and eat the costs on your behalf. Of course such a service isn't > impossible in a "Numerati" [1] economy, but we aren't quite there > yet, need the Linked Data Web in place first :-) > > Links: > > 1. http://tinyurl.com/64gsan > > Kingsley > > Best > Hugh > > On 05/12/2008 02:28, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com > <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote: > > > > Hugh Glaser wrote: > > > Exciting stuff, Kingsley. > I'm not quite sure I have worked out how I might use it > though. > The page says that hosting data is clearly free, but I > can't see how to get at it without paying for it as an EC2 > customer. > Is this right? > Cheers > > > > Hugh, > > No, shouldn't cost anything if the LOD data sets are hosted in > this > particular location :-) > > > Kingsley > > > Hugh > > > On 01/12/2008 15:30, "Kingsley Idehen" > <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> > wrote: > > > > All, > > Please see: <http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/> ; > potentially the > final destination of all published RDF archives from the > LOD cloud. > > I've already made a request on behalf of LOD, but > additional requests > from the community will accelerate the general > comprehension and > awareness at Amazon. > > Once the data sets are available from Amazon, database > constructions > costs will be significantly alleviated. > > We have DBpedia reconstruction down to 1.5 hrs (or less) > based on > Virtuoso's in-built integration with Amazon S3 for backup and > restoration etc.. We could get the reconstruction of the > entire LOD > cloud down to some interesting numbers once all the data > is situated in > an Amazon data center. > > > -- > > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen Weblog: > http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > <http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen> > President & CEO > OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen Weblog: > http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > <http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen> > President & CEO > OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen Weblog: > http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > <http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen> > President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > > > > > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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