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

[Progga]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:05:26PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 
> 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)

Your University might have a cluster.  That's the best solution IMHO.
 
> I am also doing this for a student project so have no big budget to spend
> - but would be willing to spend some money.

This could be a problem :-(

> 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 :)

@see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_ec2#Cluster_Compute_Instances
@see http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing


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