On Friday, 5 December 2014 at 21:21:49 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
The only situation where you truly need dedicated servers is
where you have real time requirements, a constant high load or
where you need a lot of RAM because you cannot partition the
dataset.
Btw, in most cases the last point does not apply. Compute Engine
has a 16core/104GB option and I would be surprised if Azure and
Amazon doesn't have a similar offer. You pay for at least 10
minutes and after that per minute at 0.8-1.2 USD/hour. So if the
computation has to run for 30 minutes on 30 instances (Approx.
the cpu power of 480 sandy bridge cores and 3 TB RAM) it will
cost you ~18USD.
