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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Yeah. Although the fact that it takes a minute or two to start up makes
> me think it's spending time trying to find a free machine to run it on.
It might be that, altho I'd expect it's more a matter of transferring the
multi-gigabyte OS from S3, decompressing and decrypting it, putting it on
the disk as a virtual drive, and then booting it up.
> Maybe each physical machine runs up to X virtual machines or something?
That would be my guess, especially since they guarantee a certain amount of
performance, and they let you pick how many CPUs you'll have, and so on. :-)
> (I would imagine transfering a runnin image from place to place would be
> infeasieble, even in a datacenter.)
Shouldn't be *too* hard, if all you're talking about is moving the disk
image. It's not like you get to hook up special devices or anything. It
would lose all the TCP connections, most likely.
> individual user who just wants some POV-Ray time... EC2 does not, even
> remotely, make sense.
Unless you want to spin up 20 machines for one hour to do a trace, say. :-)
Or if you don't have access to the sort of thing you're talking about.
> Well, you need to own a PC in order to design it in the first place. ;-)
True. Depends of course on how studly your machine is. You started this by
complaining you couldn't let the render run overnight, didn't you? :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
There aren't any trees on Mars.
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