At work, a run of our primary app occupies 1400 cores (700 real cores?) for several hours. So, I might estimate that that'd cost something like $200 per run. Not negligible, given that the hardware cost is already partly sunk. Like I said, I know this isn't Google's goal necessarily, but it might be interesting to capture some of this market, too. I wonder if a volume discount would be economical.
(Actually, the app I have in mind, though written in Python, also requires a custom C module for the CPU-intensive loop. IIRC, Google doesn't (yet?) allow this.) Mike On Feb 25, 12:53 pm, Peter Koomen <koo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Note: CPU time is charged at a rate of $0.10 per *hour*--time is > measured by the second, and we round up to the nearest cent, so using > 30 minutes of usage beyond the free threshold on a given day would > cost $0.05 :) > > Pete > > On Feb 25, 8:05 am, Mike <tutu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am watching your changes in the quota system from the perspective of > > wanting to run massive parallel applications on it. Considered that > > way, the changes are a definite improvement, though not quite to the > > point where it would be worth it for us. In particular, if I read > > your docs right, one application can really use about 72 simultaneous > > cores, due to hard quota restrictions. It is nice, though that > > apparently time is consumed "by the minute", rather than "by the > > hour", which is what Amazon does, I think. One further problem is > > that 10 cents per minute is probably too expensive, versus the best > > alternative we have available (using our own cluster resources). > > > I'm aware that massive parallel apps are not your goal, but still, > > it's interesting to see how close you're getting... > > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
