On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Aureliano Buendia <buendia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On a good day, it takes AWS spot instances 15 - 20 minutes to bring up a > 30 node cluster. This makes it non-efficient for computations which may > take only 10 - 15 minutes. I feel like there should be an issue or something to track bringing this time down. It would be a major improvement to be able to spin up clusters of any size in less than 5 minutes. Perhaps through the clever use of AMIs and parallelized SSH it can be done. Nick