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Launching 100 virtualized instance at rackspace cloud for fun?

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manlymatt83

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I was just wondering - if I were to launch 100 virtualized rackspace cloud instances I could process about 500 units per day. Is that considered a lot for seti?
 
Don't really know what you mean TBH :$, but my Q6600 @3.34 GHz running the SETI optimised app would crank out about 4500-5000 ppd, couldn't tell ya how many WUs that is as that's not recorded AFAIK (& the site is down atm) & WUs vary wildly in time/points.

Maybe someone else can give a more detailed answer?...........
 
I imagine if you used any significant CPU they'd charge you for it; but I'm not really sure either.
 
Looks like they charge by the hour-per-instance. So 24 hours of 100 instances would be about $108! That's just for one day!
 
For any meaningful crunching, virtualized servers with 2GB of RAM, 100 instances would cost about $288/day.

I use rackspace cloud for a proxy server and hosting a few dedicated mission-critical sites that can't be hosted on-site. Pricing is decent comparatively, but it still can get very expensive, very quickly.
 
PCTC2 said:
For any meaningful crunching, virtualized servers with 2GB of RAM, 100 instances would cost about $288/day.

I use rackspace cloud for a proxy server and hosting a few dedicated mission-critical sites that can't be hosted on-site. Pricing is decent comparatively, but it still can get very expensive, very quickly.
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So I've been doing some testing, and I didn't get much better throughput on the 8 GB RAM instance vs the 256 MB instance... it was 1.5x - 2x more efficient.... not worth it.
 
Interesting idea, and actually, something I'm doing in this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2071956

Would love to get some participation -- does SETI have a console app? Right now, the above experiment I'm doing is Folding, but would like to try others, too. Each session is capped at 100 people, and each person can host 20 servers, so 2,000 servers per session (all free -- typically 100 Azure instances would be $288/day also).

Good desktops run circles around a single virtualized single core server, but getting hundreds of servers running a distributed app is just cool!
 
bhitney said:
Interesting idea, and actually, something I'm doing in this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2071956

Would love to get some participation -- does SETI have a console app? Right now, the above experiment I'm doing is Folding, but would like to try others, too. Each session is capped at 100 people, and each person can host 20 servers, so 2,000 servers per session (all free -- typically 100 Azure instances would be $288/day also).

Good desktops run circles around a single virtualized single core server, but getting hundreds of servers running a distributed app is just cool!
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That's awesome.

I've got 15 instances up and running at Rackspace Cloud running seti@home. You can check my stats from this and last week "Matt Juszczak", you'll see they are quite higher than usual.
 
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