Opani is a cloud platform for analyzing large data sets. The idea is that you upload your data and then Opani helps you determine how many servers you need to process the data in the timeframe you specify. It then spins up the servers and automatically winds them down when the job is done. You can then download the results, or share them on the Opani Gallery. Opani runs on Rackspace’s infrastructure and supports tools such as R, Octave, Matlab and Python.
There are free plans for public projects. Rates for private projects vary.
Here are some examples of data analyzed with Opani:
- MRI images
- Facebook status updates
- Apache log files
- Microscope images of cancer cells
- Electrical recordings from neurons
- MySQL databases
- Photos from the Flickr API
- Heritage Health Prize data
- Twitter firehose
- WikiLeaks
- Yahoo Finance
Opani joins other cloud services for scientific computing such as Cloudnumbers.com and CPUsage (see our coverage here and here).
