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+<h3>What's Eclat</h3>
+<p>
+<b>Eclat</b> stands for EC2 Command Line Administrator Tool. It allows you to
+manage Amazon EC2 services from the command line, fast and easy. It does
+not require any resource-consuming libraries. It is written in plain C,
+depends only on libraries which are always installed on any decent system,
+and has a tiny memory footprint.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Why use it?</h3>
+<p>Amazon provides similar command line utilities in its
+<code>ec2-api-tools</code> package. So why use Eclat instead? The answer is
+simple: Eclat performs about 100 times faster, uses 10 times less CPU
+and requires 32 times less memory than <code>ec2-api-tools</code>.</p>
+<p>
+The table below summarizes the results of running various <code>describe</code>
+commands on two distinct classes of Amazon instances.
+</p>
+
+<table class="comparison">
+<thead>
+<tr>
+ <td rowspan="2" class="action">Action</td>
+ <td colspan="3">Real time</td>
+ <td colspan="3">CPU usage (%)</td>
+ <td colspan="3">Memory usage</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td>EC2</td>
+ <td>Eclat</td>
+ <td>%</td>
+ <td>EC2</td>
+ <td>Eclat</td>
+ <td>%</td>
+ <td>EC2</td>
+ <td>Eclat</td>
+ <td>%</td>
+</tr>
+</thead>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+ <td colspan="10" class="instance-type">t1.micro</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+ <td class="action">describe-addresses</td>
+ <td>0:07.73</td>
+ <td>0:00.25</td>
+ <td> 3.2</td>
+ <td> 93</td>
+ <td> 4</td>
+ <td> 4.3</td>
+ <td>541.3</td>
+ <td>19.4</td>
+ <td> 3.6</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td class="action">describe-instance-status</td>
+ <td>0:31.78</td>
+ <td>0:00.39</td>
+ <td> 1.2</td>
+ <td> 98</td>
+ <td> 28</td>
+ <td>28.6</td>
+ <td>538.3</td>
+ <td>19.7</td>
+ <td> 3.7</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td class="action">describe-instances</td>
+ <td>1:00.99</td>
+ <td>0:00.25</td>
+ <td> 0.4</td>
+ <td> 98</td>
+ <td> 9</td>
+ <td> 9.2</td>
+ <td>420.8</td>
+ <td>21.3</td>
+ <td> 5.1</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td class="action">describe-tags</td>
+ <td>0:12.26</td>
+ <td>0:00.45</td>
+ <td> 3.7</td>
+ <td> 98</td>
+ <td> 51</td>
+ <td>52.0</td>
+ <td>541.6</td>
+ <td>20.2</td>
+ <td> 3.7</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td class="action">describe-volumes</td>
+ <td>1:01.46</td>
+ <td>0:00.39</td>
+ <td> 0.6</td>
+ <td> 90</td>
+ <td> 5</td>
+ <td> 5.6</td>
+ <td>378.6</td>
+ <td>20.2</td>
+ <td> 5.3</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td class="action">Average</td>
+ <td>0:34.84</td>
+ <td>0:00.35</td>
+ <td> 1.0</td>
+ <td> 95</td>
+ <td> 19</td>
+ <td>20.3</td>
+ <td>484.1</td>
+ <td>20.2</td>
+ <td> 4.2</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+ <td colspan="10" class="instance-type">m1.large</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+ <td class="action">describe-addresses</td>
+ <td>0:06.87</td>
+ <td>0:00.11</td>
+ <td> 1.6</td>
+ <td>140</td>
+ <td> 14</td>
+ <td>10.0</td>
+ <td>589.9</td>
+ <td>19.2</td>
+ <td> 3.3</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td class="action">describe-instance-status</td>
+ <td>0:06.75</td>
+ <td>0:00.12</td>
+ <td> 1.8</td>
+ <td>143</td>
+ <td> 12</td>
+ <td> 8.4</td>
+ <td>611.8</td>
+ <td>19.5</td>
+ <td> 3.2</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td class="action">describe-instances</td>
+ <td>0:07.47</td>
+ <td>0:00.11</td>
+ <td> 1.5</td>
+ <td>143</td>
+ <td> 21</td>
+ <td>14.7</td>
+ <td>643.8</td>
+ <td>21.1</td>
+ <td> 3.3</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td class="action">describe-tags</td>
+ <td>0:07.82</td>
+ <td>0:00.10</td>
+ <td> 1.3</td>
+ <td>139</td>
+ <td> 19</td>
+ <td>13.7</td>
+ <td>654.7</td>
+ <td>20.1</td>
+ <td> 3.1</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td class="action">describe-volumes</td>
+ <td>0:08.26</td>
+ <td>0:00.10</td>
+ <td> 1.2</td>
+ <td>129</td>
+ <td> 18</td>
+ <td>14.0</td>
+ <td>654.0</td>
+ <td>20.1</td>
+ <td> 3.1</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td class="action">Average</td>
+ <td>0:07.43</td>
+ <td>0:00.11</td>
+ <td> 1.5</td>
+ <td>138</td>
+ <td> 16</td>
+ <td>12.1</td>
+ <td>630.8</td>
+ <td>20.0</td>
+ <td> 3.2</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p>The columns <code>EC2</code> and <code>Eclat</code> contain measurements shown by
+<code>ec2-api-tools</code> and Eclat correspondingly. Each <code>%</code> column
+shows the resource usage by Eclat relative to that of <code>ec2-api-tools</code>.</p>
+<h3>Requirements and Build Prerequisites</h3>
+<p>
+There are no special requirements for the system where Eclat is to be run.
+As the above table shows, it feels itself quite comfortably even in
+conditions of extreme scarcity of resources, such as on <code>t1.micro</code>
+instances.
+</p>
+<p>There are only two prerequisites for building the package:
+<a href="http://curl.haxx.se">Curl</a> and
+<a href="http://www.libexpat.org">Expat</a> libraries.</p>
+<h3>ID Mapping</h3>
+One of the unique features of Eclat is <i>ID mapping</i>, which
+allows you to identify EC2 resources by arbitrary symbolic names,
+instead of Amazon resource identifiers. Tables that map symbolic
+names to identifiers can be stored in several formats, such as
+plain text files, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/">GDBM</a>
+or <a href="http://www.openldap.org">LDAP</a> databases.
+
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