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Re: Re: st: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Statistica, S-PLUS updated
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Argyn Kuketayev <[email protected]>
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Re: Re: st: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Statistica, S-PLUS updated
Date
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:18:39 -0400
Bob
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On the other hand, we investigated replicating our 2,500-core system that's 85% utilized. That was insanely more expensive than purchasing the hardware & hiring an HPC guru to manage it.
>
> The cloud is certainly a game-changer, but not necessarily for all situations. Exciting times!
I'm using cloud for analytics for 3 years. We don't have constant 85%
utilization by no means. We have spikes of heavy load periodically.
Amazon's on-demand pricing will not work for servers which are always
up. They have other options, such as reserved instances.
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Argyn Kuketayev
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