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Re:Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP by triodan on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:28AM (#19387645)
Using GCP's pricing calculator and the specs described in the blog, it's around 170,000 USD to run it for 3 months.

https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=ef2329f6-f1...

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Re:Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:55AM (#19389211)
If you can break it into appropriate jobs that can handle interruptions, you should use interruptible instances to save money. And you really need to be able to handle that anyway in case an instance fails midway.
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