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Example: simulation back-testing
Delay = loss of productivity, project slips
Deployment
1 minute? deadline
Possible
strategy:
1 hour?
Value Use spot
of result instances for
opportunistic
1 day? acceleration
Spot and cost
savings
1 week?
“You are so fired”
Base load RI or OD
Time to compute result
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5.
Example: weekend risk analytics
Delay = minimal impact until opening bell
1 minute?
1 hour? Market
opening
1 day?
Value
of result All weekend?
Possible
strategy:
Use spot
instances for
base load, fail
back to RI or OD
if SLA is at risk “You are so fired”
Spot
RI/OD
Time to compute result
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On-Demand Pricing Spot Pricing
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7.
57%
63%
50%
CycleCloud runs50%HPC
a
Cluster with 30000 cores at
Lucky Oyster crawled 3.4B
$1279/Hour (57% savings)!
web pages, building a 400M 66%
entry index in around 14
50%
Some say$10030th fastest
hours for the (>85%
super computer with 1 GiB
savings)! 50%
interconnect
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8.
Use Case Types of Applications
Batch Processing Generic background processing (scale out computing)
Hadoop Hadoop/MapReduce processing type jobs (e.g., Search, Big
Data, etc.)
Scientific Computing Scientific trials/simulations/analysis in chemistry, physics, and
biology
Video and Image Transform videos into specific formats
Processing/Rendering
Testing Provide testing of software, websites, etc.
Web/Data Crawling Analyzing data and processing it
Financial Hedgefund analytics, energy trading, etc
HPC Use HPC servers to do embarrassingly parallel jobs
Cheap Compute Backend servers for Facebook games
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9.
Nimrod Hoofien Lynwood Bishop Nigel Duffy
SVP of Engineering - Ooyala President - MapLarge CTO - Numerate
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