[Gllug] Lots of computing power required - is Amazon EC2 an answer?

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Fri, July 1, 2011 00:05, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> I have struggled to find an algorithmic way out of this - but cannot see
> one.
>
> I have some code which is very parallelisable but requires huge computing
> resources - on a AMD 64 dual box I have here I reckon it will take about
> 20 days to run - but if I had access to about 600 CPUs it might take 20 -
> 30 minutes (it's run against a massive XML file - 800 MB or so - with
> different parameters)
>
> I am also doing this for a student project so have no big budget to spend
> - but would be willing to spend some money.
>
> Is Amazon EC2 a possible answer - it seems less than clear to me if this
> is about web serving or computing - so I thought I'd ask where people will
> know the answer straight away :)
>
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Interesting. I am currently studying algorithms as a potential Masters
course. Would you mind sharing the details of the problem to be solved
(feel free to email me in private if necessary).

Regards,
Salsaman.


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