> AWS is more, quite a bit more, than just buying/building the machine and plugging it in. Last time I looked, for mid-range AWS instances, purchase price was

> AWS is more, quite a bit more, than just buying/building the machine and plugging it in. Last time I looked, for mid-range AWS instances, purchase price was about 6-12 months of the rent. That’s assuming you buy comparable servers, i.e. Xeon, ECC RAM, etc… For GPGPU servers however, purchase price is only 1-2 months of Amazon rent. Huge difference, despite 1080Ti is very comparable to P100, 1080Ti is slightly faster (10.6 TFlops versus 9.3), P100 has slightly more VRAM (12/16GB versus 11).