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I was confused by: > In fact for $3.20 (the price of a latte) I can play around with Clojure code on a high performance 8-core 64bit server for two hours. An
by skorgu 16y ago
I was confused by:
> In fact for $3.20 (the price of a latte) I can play around with Clojure code on a high performance 8-core 64bit server for two hours.
An m2.4xlarge spot instance is ~$0.80/hr and has "26 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each)".
Are the cluster instances that much closer to bare metal than 'normal' ec2 instances or am I missing something?
- swannodette 16y ago33.5 EC2 compute units and very low latency between instances. More details here: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/
- skorgu 16y agoI suppose he's going for the 16 cores instead of 8 given the interconnect isn't used. It would be interesting to see a performance comparison between the xlarges and the cluster instances on simple speedups like this.