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Invisible wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/help/spotrequests.html
>>
>> I always thought that was a very realistic way of working things.
>
> Permutation City?
Yep. In case my late-night comment was confusing (and it was), I meant I
thought Permutation City's fictional depiction of spot prices for
computation sounded very realistic, and here we are a few years later doing
just that.
> This is an interesting move. As I understand it, an Amazon "instance" is
> like a virtual machine. So starting and stopping one is quite a lot of
> work.
It takes a couple of minutes to do so, yes.
> Not sure what you'd use a VM that could shut down at any random
> second for...
Hook it to a persistent disk and render an animation? Restart from where you
left off? If each frame only takes a minute or two and you are rendering a
feature-length animation...
Extra responsiveness to read-mostly queries as long as it's cheap enough?
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
much longer being almost empty than almost full.
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