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Why this over say spinning up a cluster on AWS? You're paying for HW and watts either way, and AWS already has the hardware sharing built in. For just $10, you

Why this over say spinning up a cluster on AWS? You're paying for HW and watts either way, and AWS already has the hardware sharing built in. For just $10, you can get ~100 GPU spot instances for an hour, which is a ridiculous number of cores/flops.

adapteva 11y ago
Not familiar with the price point, reference? Pricing at AWS seems to be more like $0.65/hour for one GPU?http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ Either way, the point of supercomputer.io is that it would be free.(thanks to the contribution of everyone donating cycles). Think BOINC, not AWS. This is not for commercial use.
- ac29 11y ago
  Spot pricing is more like $0.065/hr: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/spot-instances/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/spot-instances...
  - adapteva 11y ago
    Mind boggling pricing for sure, but $0.065/hr is still greater than $0/hour:-)