The one time I used a micro instance, it seemed worse than useless. It REALLY is bursty - i.e. it is fast for about 10 seconds and then it just staaaallllllllllssssss.
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Klaus <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > coming back to work a bit with AWS, I am wondering what happened to this > thread and the associated software? > Is someone still using it? > As far as I can see, there results were not merged with JBT. (a pity) > (If I look at the current AWS pricing, today, a micro instance (spot) is > about 0.006 USD, i.e., renting 100 for an hour would be just $0.6 ;-) or > more than 150 for a USD/hour.. > My experience so far, is the micro instances are not very powerful, but > they might have the best cost-benefit for massive parallel problems.. > Alternatively: Eight Extra Large 88 EC2 Compute Units (eight-core 2 x > Intel Xeon) cost $0,54 (spot price at time of writing) > One or two of them would also form a powerfull possibility.. (at the time > of the thread start above less than half the power did cost $1.60 ... and > was already twice as fast as the computing reference above..) > For bursts the the micro instances have 2 EC2, meaning for $0.54 this > would be about 180 EC2. - However, I am not sure about AWS definition of > "short burst".. i.e., wether this is seconds or minutes. Moreover, this > would require significant autoscaling and automated load distribution.. > > Cheers > Klaus > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "JBookTrader" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/jbooktrader/-/S4aSbnG0agUJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JBookTrader" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader?hl=en.
