{"id":384,"date":"2009-11-08T05:11:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:11:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:11:43","slug":"using-amazons-cloud-service-for-computationally-expensive-calculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/artificial-intelligence\/using-amazons-cloud-service-for-computationally-expensive-calculations.php","title":{"rendered":"Using Amazon&#8217;s cloud service for computationally expensive calculations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not get too excited about Amazon's S3 online storage web services, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/ref=sc_fe_l_2\/104-9403179-8419167?ie=UTF8&amp;node=201590011&amp;no=3435361&amp;me=A36L942TSJ2AJA\" target=\"new\">Amazon cloud web services<\/a> look very compelling: $0.10 per instance-hour consumed (or part of an hour consumed) where an instance is roughly equivalent to 1.7Ghz Xeon CPU, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and 250Mb\/s of network bandwidth.<\/p><p>I sometimes do large machine learning runs, and the two computers on my local LAN that I usually use (dual CPU Mac tower with 1.5 gigs RAM, Dell dual Pentium with 1 gig of RAM) are fairly fast, but there is often that pesky overnight wait to get a run in.<\/p><p>I need to spend more time checking out Amazon's <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.amazonwebservices.com\/connect\/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=84\" target=\"new\">code samples and documentation<\/a>, but the idea of spending perhaps $10 and getting a long running machine learning run done quickly is very compelling.<\/p><p>PS. I just tried to sign up for the service, but their beta is full \ud83d\ude41<\/p><p>PSS. I just got an account \ud83d\ude42<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/43489_9025880770474050744-694460313473253972?l=artificial-intelligence-theory.blogspot.com\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not get too excited about Amazon's S3 online storage web services, but the Amazon cloud web services look very compelling: $0.10 per instance-hour consumed (or part of an hour consumed) where an instance is roughly equivalent to 1.7Ghz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/artificial-intelligence\/using-amazons-cloud-service-for-computationally-expensive-calculations.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}