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Running long running jobs on EC2 spot instances. It's not uncommon for a bioinformatics pipeline to have a multi-day runtime. If you can checkpoint every hour o
by laurencerowe 10y ago
Running long running jobs on EC2 spot instances. It's not uncommon for a bioinformatics pipeline to have a multi-day runtime. If you can checkpoint every hour or so you can use spot-instances and save ~80% of your compute costs.