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Thanks for the thought! I hope I didn't sound ungrateful... There are resources in the university but they come with overhead and not as much freedom as a VM o

Thanks for the thought! I hope I didn't sound ungrateful... There are resources in the university but they come with overhead and not as much freedom as a VM on which you can do anything. That said our cluster is about as big as two c4.8xlarge vms.

cheald 11y ago
FWIW, you can have 2 cc2.8xlarge spot instances for about $0.50/hour. $12/day isn't nothing, but it's pretty affordable. Stick your data on an EBS instance attached to the spot so you keep your data if the spot instance gets nuked and you have a functioning cluster for around 13% of the on-demand price.