<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> I have a buddy with a company that does this. Once they are more<br>
> established, I think it might be a good collaboration. EC2 time is<br>
> still expensive enough that the only people that use it are willing to<br>
> pay for software and support.<br>
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</div>If you are fine with batch processing, you can use the Spot pricing,<br>
which gets you a 2-socket E5-2670 compute node with 10 GbE and 60 GB of<br>
memory for $0.27/hour. It takes 100 nodes just to equal the hourly wage<br>
of a grad student. Is that not a decent price?<br>
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(The unreserved on-demand rate is about 4x higher, and there are<br>
reserved instances of intermediate cost, plus an annual fee.)<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I meant the reserved rate.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> Matt<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener
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