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

[bleachin at rhyspowell.com]

Take a look at the gpu clustering options.

I'm not sure how it will work with your code but that's what its therefore.

Cheers

Rhys
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From: "Adrian McMenamin" <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk>
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:05:26 
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Subject: [Gllug] Lots of computing power required - is Amazon EC2 an answer?

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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