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~ CloudCrowd ~

  * Parallel processing for the rest of us
  * Write your scripts in Ruby
  * Works with Amazon EC2 and S3
  * split -> process -> merge
  * As easy as `gem install cloud-crowd`

  Well-suited for:

  * Generating or resizing images.
  * Encoding video.
  * Running text extraction or OCR on PDFs.
  * Migrating a large file set or database.
  * Web scraping.

~ Documentation ~

  Wiki: http://wiki.github.com/documentcloud/cloud-crowd
  Rdoc: http://rdoc.info/projects/documentcloud/cloud-crowd

~ Getting started ~

  # Install the gem.

    >> sudo gem install cloud-crowd

  # Install the CloudCrowd configuration files to a location of your choosing.

    >> crowd install ~/config/cloud-crowd

  # Now, you can use the full complement of `crowd` commands from inside of
  # this configuration directory. To see the available commands:

    >> crowd --help

  # Edit the configuration files to your satisfaction, add AWS credentials, 
  # and then load the CloudCrowd schema into your configured database.

    >> cd ~/config/cloud-crowd
    >> mate config.yml
    >> mate database.yml
    >> [create the database you just configured...]
    >> crowd load_schema

  # Write your actions, and install them into the 'actions' subdirectory.
  # CloudCrowd comes with a few default actions as an example.

  # To launch the central server (make sure that you include its location
  # in config.yml):

    >> crowd server

  # The configuration folder also includes 'config.ru', which can be used by
   # any Rack-compliant webserver to run your central server.

  # Then, to launch a node of workers:

    >> crowd node

  # To spin up remote nodes, install the 'cloud-crowd' gem and copy over
  # your configuration directory. Run `crowd node`, and the remote machines
  # will register with the central server, becoming available for processing.

  # At this point you can visit your Operations Center at localhost:9173 to 
  # view all of your nodes, ready for action.