<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: left; "><font face="arial, sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Hi all,</span></font></div><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><br></div>We are a group of MIT graduate students working on group research project on cloud computing, more specifically </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Amazon EC2 spot instances. The research is aimed at </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">discovering the evolving spot market dynamics and commoditization for those services.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We would appreciate your help by participating in the survey and would be glad to share our </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">research results with you after completion. On participation, you would automatically be enrolled </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">in our amazon gift card draw worth $30. Those who take further interview</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> would receive an additional compensation.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Link <a href="http://goo.gl/7MNZOS">http://goo.gl/7MNZOS</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We thank you for your time and participation.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">/Del</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">System Design and Management Fellow,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">MIT’s School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management</span></div></body></html>