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I remember that GCP claimed they will follow Moore's Law and drop the price for the same instance type over time. It was just BS marketing, unfortunately I beli

I remember that GCP claimed they will follow Moore's Law and drop the price for the same instance type over time. It was just BS marketing, unfortunately I believed them.

guuguuguu 7y ago
Sad story
mathattack 7y ago
I’ve observed price cuts over time for Azure and AWS but very hard to get good published data.
user5994461 7y ago
AWS also stopped to drop instance price periodically. Sadly Moore law has stopped some time ago affecting everyone.
- sudosysgen 7y ago
  As we're starting to see, it was mostly Intel not keeping up, actually. Moore's law is mostly holding up till today, and probably for a couple more years before we really have to switch paradigms.
  - user5994461 7y ago
    The definition of doubling performance every few years stopped holding up a while ago. The formal definition of doubling the amount of transistors somewhat holds up, see the huge increase in core counts in recent years, but that doesn't benefit most applications much. Incidentally cloud providers are billing by core count so adding more cores doesn't help the bill.
    - imtringued 7y ago
      Most applications that run on a server create a process or thread per request/session and scale reasonably well.
    - sudosysgen 7y ago
      Nope. It's just that GPUs carried the mantle. If you have a massively parallel number crunching application you should bite the bullet and port it to GPU, and you'll see a truly massive FLOP/$ increase. And unlike processors GPU performance is still rising 35-45% per generation, although that will slow if NVidia gets too far ahead. Also, if your goal is to get optimal cost/FLOP and you are computing pretty much constantly then you shouldn't be using the cloud, to be honest. If you are IO limited or if you have burst use then maybe, but for cost/FLOP the kings are still consumer GPUs and Threadrippers, by very far and large.

I remember that GCP claimed they will follow Moore's Law and drop the price for the same instance type over time. It was just BS marketing, unfortunately I believed them.

guuguuguu 7y ago

Sad story

mathattack 7y ago

I’ve observed price cuts over time for Azure and AWS but very hard to get good published data.

user5994461 7y ago

AWS also stopped to drop instance price periodically. Sadly Moore law has stopped some time ago affecting everyone.

sudosysgen 7y ago
As we're starting to see, it was mostly Intel not keeping up, actually. Moore's law is mostly holding up till today, and probably for a couple more years before we really have to switch paradigms.
- user5994461 7y ago
  The definition of doubling performance every few years stopped holding up a while ago. The formal definition of doubling the amount of transistors somewhat holds up, see the huge increase in core counts in recent years, but that doesn't benefit most applications much. Incidentally cloud providers are billing by core count so adding more cores doesn't help the bill.
  - imtringued 7y ago
    Most applications that run on a server create a process or thread per request/session and scale reasonably well.
  - sudosysgen 7y ago
    Nope. It's just that GPUs carried the mantle. If you have a massively parallel number crunching application you should bite the bullet and port it to GPU, and you'll see a truly massive FLOP/$ increase. And unlike processors GPU performance is still rising 35-45% per generation, although that will slow if NVidia gets too far ahead. Also, if your goal is to get optimal cost/FLOP and you are computing pretty much constantly then you shouldn't be using the cloud, to be honest. If you are IO limited or if you have burst use then maybe, but for cost/FLOP the kings are still consumer GPUs and Threadrippers, by very far and large.