An examination of the costs and myths around HPC circa 2011 for an internal developer conference.

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It Is All About the Benjamins: The Real World Economics of HPC
Kevin Goldsmith | Director of Engineering

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Amazon costs
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Adobe web services
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Imagecore Service AWS Instance Type: 2 X m1.large
Requests per minute: 240, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 4, CPU cycle steal=25%
Imagecore Service AWS Instance Type: 2 X m1.xlarge
Requests per minute: 240, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 4
Requests per minute: 180, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 3
Imagecore Service AWS Instance Type: c1.xlarge
Requests per minute: 240, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 10
Requests per minute: 240, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 8
Requests per minute: 180, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 6
Requests per minute: 180, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 4
Requests per minute: 150, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 4
Requests per minute: 120, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 4
Requests per minute: 90, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 4
Requests per minute: 60, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 2
Requests per minute: 30, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 2
AWS CPU Utilization
Imagecore Service AWS Instance Type: m1.xlarge
Requests per minute: 120, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 4
Requests per minute: 120, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 2
Requests per minute: 90, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 2
Requests per minute: 60, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 2
Requests per minute: 30, No. of Imagecore workers on the server: 2

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