On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> writes:

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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