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Re: Cheapest Source of x86 Cores?

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Post by rhplus »

mlthrowaway1953 wrote: post #5
re-thc wrote: post #4

Both Azure and GCP have really good spot pricing in many regions (~90% off). E.g. GCP C3 pricing is $0.003/vCPU hour and $0.004 for 1GB RAM -- where C3 = Intel Sapphire Rapids (latest gen), which should be quite a bit faster than a C5 (older Intel). c3-highcpu-88 (44 real cores) is $0.344/hr hence N2D (AMD Milan) has equivalents that's also in a similar price bracket See: https://cloud.google.com/compute/vm-instance-…

This is fantastic, thank you!

The prices are great, but you may need to search across different regions for spot VM availability.

Re: Cheapest Source of x86 Cores?

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Post by mewmew07 »

amelius wrote: post #29
mewmew07 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the price confusion/obscurity facilitates higher prices, none of the players on the sell side would benefit from lower margins, so they all do the same

Yeah, but that would stimulate the existence of comparison websites.

i know, who needs those though?

Re: Cheapest Source of x86 Cores?

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Post by actionfromafar »

sz4kerto wrote: post #6

An AX161 at Hetzner with 32 physical cores (EPYC 7502P, 64 threads) costs ~$130 per month, that works out to $0.17/hr ($0.0053 per core per hour).

Hetzner is good value, but I had a long conversation with their support, and we were separated by a common language.

Re: Cheapest Source of x86 Cores?

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Post by nfeutry »

mewmew07 wrote: post #17
amelius wrote: post #8

Why does one have to ask HN for this? It looks to me like the market could be more transparent here.

the price confusion/obscurity facilitates higher prices, none of the players on the sell side would benefit from lower margins, so they all do the same

That's right but if the best price you have found before asking is AWS, you probably have not done a lot of research.

Re: Cheapest Source of x86 Cores?

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Post by delfinom »

asah wrote: post #9

Contact joinmassive.com - much cheaper than all of this.

https://www.joinmassive.com/faq#users

>Massive is like Airbnb or Turo for your computer. Rather than letting you share your home or vehicle when you’re not using them, Massive lets you share any unused computing resources you have. In exchange, app developers give you access to their premium features.

This doesn't have security concerns, not at all, nope

>Massive combines the small amounts of resources contributed by users like you into a supercomputer that funds app features by mining cryptocurrency, decentralizing blockchain infrastructure, running scientific simulations, and performing general distributed tasks.

Yea so it's totally just going to be abused to crpytomine 24/7 on your hardware

>Massive doesn’t develop consumer apps but has partnered with many developers who offer to let you upgrade with Massive in their apps. Depending on your geolocation, you’ll get such offers in apps like Boom 3D for Windows and Digg Desktop.

....Yea this is basically malware and botnetting. There is 10000% perverse incentive for those "apps" to trick users into the botnet

Re: Cheapest Source of x86 Cores?

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Post by kobalsky »

actionfromafar wrote: post #34
sz4kerto wrote: post #6

An AX161 at Hetzner with 32 physical cores (EPYC 7502P, 64 threads) costs ~$130 per month, that works out to $0.17/hr ($0.0053 per core per hour).

Hetzner is good value, but I had a long conversation with their support, and we were separated by a common language.

my experience with hetzner's support is excellent since I've never spoken to them

8 dedicated 64t/128gb servers for 2 years, 0 cumulative seconds of downtime, perfect record.

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