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Re:Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting com... by jcoffland on Monday August 03, 2015 @01:42PM (#9998142)
That would be a waste since this would contribute very little to F@H. I'm the lead dev at F@H.
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Re:Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting com... by sp332 on Monday August 03, 2015 @01:59PM (#9998331)
Wow, 20,000 GPU cores for 20+ days wouldn't help much?
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Re:Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting com... by cing on Monday August 03, 2015 @03:11PM (#9998997)
g2.8xlarge is 4 GPUs and costs 0.6945/hr on spot instance. You could contribute 120 GPUs for 2 weeks, which would be pretty insignificant: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats2
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Re:Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting com... by tempestn on Monday August 03, 2015 @03:27PM (#9999137)
Can you explain in more detail why the contribution wouldn't be proportional to the value of the credits?
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Re:Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting com... by hellbanner on Monday August 03, 2015 @01:51PM (#9998245)
I thought F@H was processing dependent?
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