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0 pointsjiggawatts2y ago0 comments

It’s just corporate profits combined with market forces, not a some sort of malicious conspiracy.

You can rent a 2-socket AMD server with 120 available cores and RDMA for something like 50c to $2 per hour. That’s just barely above the cost of the electricity and cooling!

What do you want, free compute just handed to you out of the goodness of their hearts?

There is incredible demand for high-end GPUs right now, and market prices reflect that.

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beachy2y ago

You mentioned malicious conspiracy, not me.

It's just business and I'd do the same if I was in charge of AWS.

alex_lav2y ago

> You can rent a 2-socket AMD server with 120 available cores and RDMA for something like 50c to $2 per hour.

Source required

jiggawattsOP2y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36950422

mikeravkine2y ago

Sorry where are these .50c many core servers you speak of exactly?

jiggawattsOP2y ago

Azure's HB120rs_v3 size is about 36c per hour right now with Spot pricing in East US. These use 3rd generation AMD EPYC "Milan" processors.

The instances with the 4th generation "Genoa-X" processors (HB176rs_v4) cost about $2.88 per hour. The HX176rs_v4 model with 1.7 TB of memory is $3.46 per hour.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/hbv...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/hx-...

alex_lav2y ago

Are these actually attainable, as in I can log in and launch an instances with these specifications right now, or are they just listings? I ask because literally last week I was unable to launch similar instances on AWS despite those specs being listed as available and online.

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megakwood2y ago

Where can you get 120 cores for $2/hr?

jiggawattsOP2y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36950422

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0 pointsjiggawatts2y ago0 comments

It’s just corporate profits combined with market forces, not a some sort of malicious conspiracy.

You can rent a 2-socket AMD server with 120 available cores and RDMA for something like 50c to $2 per hour. That’s just barely above the cost of the electricity and cooling!

What do you want, free compute just handed to you out of the goodness of their hearts?

There is incredible demand for high-end GPUs right now, and market prices reflect that.

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beachy2y ago

You mentioned malicious conspiracy, not me.

It's just business and I'd do the same if I was in charge of AWS.

alex_lav2y ago

> You can rent a 2-socket AMD server with 120 available cores and RDMA for something like 50c to $2 per hour.

Source required

jiggawattsOP2y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36950422

mikeravkine2y ago

Sorry where are these .50c many core servers you speak of exactly?

jiggawattsOP2y ago

Azure's HB120rs_v3 size is about 36c per hour right now with Spot pricing in East US. These use 3rd generation AMD EPYC "Milan" processors.

The instances with the 4th generation "Genoa-X" processors (HB176rs_v4) cost about $2.88 per hour. The HX176rs_v4 model with 1.7 TB of memory is $3.46 per hour.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/hbv...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/hx-...

alex_lav2y ago

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megakwood2y ago

Where can you get 120 cores for $2/hr?

jiggawattsOP2y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36950422

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse