On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
Hi!
this may sound as a heresy, but for some jobs, that are short in time- span, but need lots of CPU capacity we could try using Amazon's EC2 or any other grid computing service (maybe some university wants to donate cluster time?). That would be much cheaper than allocating high-performance-high- bucks hardware to projects like this.
If you end up using the EC2 machines continuously 24/7, then in my experience it is more cost effective to run your own. If all you need is temporary large parallel execution or overflow capacity, then it is great.
Cheers Artur