Ick. Actually it looks more like a dollar an hour. Still cheap, but not as cheap as the pricing page indicated. There's many billing options and it actually costs quite a lot to study them (in terms of people time).
Hmm... -- Raul On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > An m2.4xlarge EC2 machine running linux currently costs $0.0712 per hour. > This has 64 gigabytes of ram, which makes for a fairly capable J platform. > > Note also that if you install x windows on your local computer (it's a > free part of cygwin if you are running windows), you can run jqt on the > linux machine and it looks just like it's running as an application on your > windows machine (albeit with occasional network issues). > > Now, it is true that that kind of money adds up, and you are taxed on your > income also. But for some tasks it's worth spinning up a machine like this > - if you value your time at minimum wage, your big cost here is mostly > trying it out for the first time. Once you are set up, if you value your > time at minimum wage, it would take quite a lot of computation to add up to > the cost of an hour of your own time. > > (That said, some things do take quite a lot of computation...) > > Note that you do need to be able to set up ssh and xwindows, though, to > make this work. (ssh has a feature which supports tunneling of xwindows > traffic. xwindows is a gui designed back in the "bad old days" which was > designed to let your graphics come from a different machine than your local > one. (At one point it looked like the advancement of game systems would > make that practice obsolete, but that was assuming that prices would make > sense, and they do not.) > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
