Amazon EC2 Cluster Instances Available on Spot Market

[jeffbarr]

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/04/amazon-ec2-cluster-instances-available-on-spot-market.html

[baltcode]

Hasn't spot pricing been available for quite a while (at least more than a year)? Or is this something different?

[endian → baltcode]

"Cluster Instances" are the ones with epic GPUs:

  22 GB memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute Unit
  2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs
  10 Gigabit Ethernet

Note: their price will be lower-bounded by the value of pooled Bitcoin mining that two Fermis can do in an hour.

[shykes → endian]

their price will be lower-bounded by the value of pooled Bitcoin mining that two Fermis can do in an hour

Bitcoins are an astonishing milestone in the commoditization of computing. And this is only 2011 - I can't wait to see what else I'll witness in my lifetime.