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The real benefit of the in-house solution is that marginal compute costs are zero. And while this current example is just for fun, I do want my researchers and
by jgalt212 5y ago
The real benefit of the in-house solution is that marginal compute costs are zero. And while this current example is just for fun, I do want my researchers and engineers not worried about the compute cost of every experiment or line of inquiry.
I dig the cloud for production, but for R&D I like my people to have fixed costs and close to zero marginal costs.
- eru 5y agoElectricity costs real money. But you are right that the marginal costs will be mostly made up of opportunity costs. Unless you have only one researcher, it doesn't matter for an individual researcher whether their marginal costs are opportunity costs of their co-workers or AWS bills. (And if you don't have any mechanism for your individual researchers to feel the opportunity costs of their co-workers; that is the same thing as saying that one researcher can hog up all the compute time. Social pressure is also a way to make them feel opportunity costs.)