{"id":883,"date":"2012-11-05T17:27:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2012\/11\/05\/aws-paying-the-rent"},"modified":"2022-09-26T20:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:24:03","slug":"aws-paying-the-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2012\/11\/05\/aws-paying-the-rent\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS, paying the rent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Below are the comparitave results of some test we ran on various instances of AWS clusters. \u00a0We also ran identical jobs on our 3 different series. \u00a0One should keep in mind this these tests were primarily CPU based and there was very little disk IO and most memory operations would have occured in cache. \u00a0The ICTS 2800MHz cores with fast cache outperform Amazon's best offering by far (a lower value on the graph is better).<\/div>\r\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/awsresults2.jpg\" alt=\"awsresults2\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\r\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/awsresults1.jpg\" alt=\"awsresults1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\r\n<div>We ran an instance of Amazon's fastests offering, the m2.4xlarge, as a 2 node cluster with a total of 16 cores. \u00a0We bid at $0.14 per hour and the longest job took just over 1\/2 an hour, hence we paid $0.14 total. \u00a0Had the job run for 100 hours this would have cost us R224 excluding data transfer costs. \u00a050 similar runs would have cost just over R11,000. \u00a0This would not be an unusual number of runs for a researcher to complete in a week.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>Below are the comparitave results of some test we ran on various instances of AWS clusters. &nbsp;We also ran identical jobs on our 3 different series. &nbsp;One should keep in mind this these tests were primarily CPU based and there was very little disk IO and most memory operations would have occured in cache. &nbsp;The ICTS 2800MHz cores with fast cache outperform Amazon&#8217;s best offering by far (a lower value on the graph is better).<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uct.ac.za\/gallery\/1253\/awsresults2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"awsresults2\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uct.ac.za\/gallery\/1253\/awsresults1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"awsresults1\"><\/div>\n<div>We ran an instance of Amazon&#8217;s fastests offering, the m2.4xlarge, as a 2 node cluster with a total of 16 cores. &nbsp;We bid at $0.14 per hour and the longest job took just over 1\/2 an hour, hence we paid $0.14 total. &nbsp;Had the job run for 100 hours this would have cost us R224 excluding data transfer costs. &nbsp;50 similar runs would have cost just over R11,000. &nbsp;This would not be an unusual number of runs for a researcher to complete in a week.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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