Posts by nick

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it worth expanding my spot fleet? (Message 93177) Posted 3 Apr 2020 by nick Post: After the update all seem great. Now AWS-crunching without issues!
2) Message boards : News : Help in the fight against COVID-19! (Message 93176) Posted 3 Apr 2020 by nick Post: Congrats on the update guys. Crunching!
3) Message boards : Number crunching : 0 new tasks, Rosetta? (Message 92893) Posted 1 Apr 2020 by nick Post: Stuck as well (https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13675) I understand that people are working toward making this go away. It'd still be nice to have an idea when we might hope to see improvements. I wonder if there's anything we could do to help.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it worth expanding my spot fleet? (Message 92781) Posted 31 Mar 2020 by nick Post: Yeap, good point. BUT the cost of incoming traffic to AWS is 0, while the cost of outgoing traffic is $0.09 per GB. I assumed that the bulk of the traffic would be incoming to the BOINC client, is that correct?
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it worth expanding my spot fleet? (Message 92779) Posted 31 Mar 2020 by nick Post: I haven't the faintest but I'll use this price while it's there. Looking at the three month history of spot prices for C5 instances in Ohio, they've risen from a bit below 1 cent per CPU hour to a tad above 1 cent per CPU hour (or by 9.41% to be exact). 3.13% per month might be significant if you're running thousands of instances but for my intended purposes seems I won't have to worry about a massive pricing change overnight.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it worth expanding my spot fleet? (Message 92772) Posted 31 Mar 2020 by nick Post: Great, good to know. For what it's worth if anyone wants to use AWS to contribute to this, go for Ubuntu and launch C5 spot instances in the Ohio region. This currently brings you down to almost 1 cent per CPU-hour.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it worth expanding my spot fleet? (Message 92765) Posted 31 Mar 2020 by nick Post: Hey, Great project, thanks to everyone's efforts. I'm a total newbie here and arrived mostly because of COVID-19. I'd like to spend my earned AWS vouchers in c5.2xlarge machines to crunch away (plus my desktop of course). Raised a couple of instances in a spot fleet and was about to raise more but I see I've run out of tasks. Checking the logs I discovered that this happened early during the morning as well. I was planning on expanding to use 5 instances. But it's going to be worth it only if there's a steady inflow of tasks. Any ideas if this is a temporary issue?