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Hardnews
Senior Cruncher England Joined: Oct 11, 2008 Post Count: 151 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Has this been mentioned before?
Amazon rents out cloud-server cluster power for a buck an hour or less. BOINC agent is installed, and it would be possible to run WCG tasks, at least to gain some useful preliminary cost/benefits analysis for WCG. I'm personally interested in seeing this run, as it could have interesting benefits, say for getting charitable donors to sponsor WCG crunch-time, or even trading expensive home electricity tariffs for cheaper cloud-cluster tarrifs by shoving the crunch-load onto an Amazon instance, or two. The setup and maintenance would need a Linux guru, I think. Here's the Youtube soft-sell on ease of set-up Is it possible? Here's the bottom line.http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ Sue |
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astrolabe.
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Sure sounds feasible. I am sure WCG would like you to contact Amazon and set it up. WCG can use any computer that is voluntarily connected up.
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Former Member
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Hello Hardnews.
Reference: Hardnews [Jun 8, 2012 5:48:08 PM] post If a case can be made that shows the cost-of-crunching of a 'reference-volunteer' for a given 'reference science output value' -- as something that can be done at less cost using the cloud -- then we may have a viable alternative model of crunching. If this model catches on, then we would have gone full circle: from centralized, supercomputer-centric computing, to the current distributed grid-computing, back to a centralized, cloud-based computing. Interesting to see how -- coldFusion and its related technologies, if ever any of those technologies become reality -- would play a role in shaping where the future of crunching would go, considering that a good-part of the long-term cost** of today's crunchers is the cost of electricity. Notes: **The justification for the cost of the PC hardware (purchase. maintenance, etc) can be camped-on to reasons (other than crunching) of why people buy a computer, and that essentially, the added cost is the added electricity cost from crunching. ; |
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