Hi,
Has anyone else noticed spikiness in the price for spot instances
within the past two weeks. I've been finding I'm lucky to get a 5 or
10 node cluster up for more than two days, and in some cases, no more
than an hour. The market price for a c1.xlarge averages about
$0.25/hour but can quickly rise to $0.80 for a short period (<2
hours). Other instance types have also experienced similar spikiness
lately.
Do you know if there is any way to save the state of the cluster when
a system halt signal is given by AWS?
Just curious. Thank you in advance,
Damian
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Damian Eads Ph.D. Candidate
University of California Computer Science
1156 High Street Machine Learning Lab, E2-489
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~eads
Research Visitor, Machine Intelligence Lab
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Received on Tue Sep 14 2010 - 12:39:38 EDT