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

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