March 2012
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Launch Lessons
Since launching cloudlab we’ve gathered a wealth of lessons on what to do (and not to do). In this update, we’re going to share some interesting analytics and some hard-learnt lessons with you in the hope you can see where we’re going with cloudlab.
We chose Hacker News (HN) as our first point of release. HN is a great site to get brutally honest feedback and as far as...
February 2012
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After many months of work, but we’re ready to unveil our cloudlab.io alpha!
Cloudlab is a numerical processing environment built around cloud storage and cloud computation, but without the nasty parts. You put your data in as JSON1 and process it using ES5 JS bound to native math routines. You can store your tools (scripts) with us, and even execute your tools remotely. Think of it...
January 2012
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Interfacing with Cloudlab
Developing applications that do interesting things with the potential to make exciting things happen is the bread and butter of the hacker. So with that in mind, we’ve been working on ways to allow our users the ability to fully harness the platform’s capabilities by providing powerful yet simple developer tools.
Just in the past few days we’ve integrated our REST API into...
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Benchmarking
In trying to build a good replacement for other numerical processing applications, we’ve needed to benchmark the performance of cloudlab versus other places in which JavaScript can be run to process numbers. The following table lists the result of five successive runs of Benchmark.go
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Win7 Chrome 16 8.44 8.53 8.33 8.59 ...