[petsc-dev] seen on a competitors site

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at 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

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