15319/15619: Cloud Computing

Dear Cloud Computing Alums,

We hope you are doing well.

If you have not graduated already, we are looking for students who are interested in becoming TAs for the cloud computing course in the Fall of 2014.

If you are interested, please fill this form asap.

Regards,

Majd

The following is the team ranking of the performance for the submitted web services evaluated during the live-test for the Twitter analytics project:

Up_in_the_Air (Winner)

cracking

Essex1104

MatrixHacker

CCCats

Sun

42

Apollo

pushpushpush

HMZ

Bottie_CC

supercloud

CloudDragon

fighting

MZW

SJTU

CloudMatrix

CloudWalker

suncompute

TeBoring

lwl

Awan

Epsilon

absolutepanda

passion

KU-Cloud

LWS

RVF

adiaos

CoolShine

CloudCrawlers

15619infinity

Alvin

Waydream

Stratus

ThreeRookies

BegNoSay

RuCh

Acloud

DMB007

Patronus

Z-Warriors

HowIMetYourCloud

DoomsdayBunnies

AP13

MHS00MSE

As you can see from the relative performance chart, team Up_in_the_Air is the clear winner. Congratulations!

We are also very happy with many of the team submissions. Well done and we hope you learned a lot because that's what really matters!

Happy Holidays!

Dear 15-319/15-619 students,

  We hoped you have enjoyed the course, and working with Amazon Web Services.

As of Sunday Dec 15th, 2013, your personal AWS account will be "unlinked" from CMU's paying account, and all AWS charges incurred on or after Dec 16th will be your responsibility - charged to the Credit Card that you have on file when you first created the account.  If your account does not have a Credit Card on file, it will go into suspended state.

The choice is up to you if you want to keep your personal account open with AWS.
If you wish to close the account, go to the "Manage Your Account" page, then click the "Cancel Your Account" link near the bottom.

To prevent further charges to your account, be sure to look in the following locations on the AWS console:

• EC2
  Terminate Instances (not just Stop)
  Remove Elastic IPs, Placement Groups
  Delete Volumes, Snapshots
  Elastic Load Balancer (CLI tools)
      - Remove all Auto-Scaling Groups, Load Balancers

• S3
  Remove files/buckets
  Mac & Windows users: CyberDuck offers S3 compatible GUI file transfers
  If you don't have enough space on AFS, Box offers 50GB of online capacity for CMU users.

• DynamoDB
  Delete all tables (along with notifications).

• CloudWatch
  Remove Alarms and Metrics

• Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
  Make sure any Job Flows are not scheduled to run automatically.

• Simple Notification Service
  Delete all Topics

If you have any other questions about the account, please email me directly - jboles@qatar.cmu.edu

Regards,

--Jason Boles

Hello Students,

We have completed grading Language Model Generation on OLI, and you should have received emails from your respective TAs to terminate your clusters. Please verify and terminate your clusters ASAP if all is OK.

Regards,

Suhail

Dear Students,

The last module of Project 4 is due on Friday, December 6th at 11:59PM Pittsburgh.  Check OLI for the deadline.

Please make sure that your systems are available to grade at that time.  The TAs will get in touch when it is time to terminate them.

Do not keep your systems running from now as this will chew into the course budget and risk a grade penalty.

If you have any questions, please ask.

Regards,

Majd

Dear Students,

We will be evaluating the submissions of students who have completed the last checkpoint of the course "Language Model Generation" as soon as they appear on the system. Please ensure that your cluster is kept alive for grading. You will receive an email from a TA asking you to terminate your cluster as soon as its graded.

Hi,

Because I have to travel on Wed morning, my TA hour this week is canceled. Sorry for the late notification and inconvenience...

Thanks,

Jiangjie (Becket) Qin

Hello Students,

Some have noticed that in AWS Console -> My Account -> Account Activity page, that you are seeing dollar ($) amounts greater than zero.  This is normal because the course credits/coupons have been used, so AWS will now send bill to CMU.  (previously coupons matched usage, so summary = $0.00)

As long as you successfully linked your account at the beginning of the semester, you should not see any bills to your personal credit card.  (If it's not linked, you'd already have received bills for September and October as well).

If you do see a charge from AWS, please email me directly - jboles@qatar.cmu.edu .

Hope that clarifies things.

regards,

--Jason Boles