On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Jed Brown <jedbr...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Matthew Knepley <knep...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I have a buddy with a company that does this. Once they are more > > established, I think it might be a good collaboration. EC2 time is > > still expensive enough that the only people that use it are willing to > > pay for software and support. > > If you are fine with batch processing, you can use the Spot pricing, > which gets you a 2-socket E5-2670 compute node with 10 GbE and 60 GB of > memory for $0.27/hour. It takes 100 nodes just to equal the hourly wage > of a grad student. Is that not a decent price? > > (The unreserved on-demand rate is about 4x higher, and there are > reserved instances of intermediate cost, plus an annual fee.) > I meant the reserved rate. Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener
