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Table 8 AWS Cluster Compute Instance Types

From: Fair Benchmarking for Cloud Computing systems

 

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Compute

33.5 ECU* (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” architecture)

33.5 ECU* (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” architecture)

88 ECU* (Eight-core 2 x Intel Xeon)

* ECU: Amazon EC2 Compute Unit

2 x NVIDIA Tesla "Fermi" M2050 GPUs

Memory (GB)

23

22

60.5

Instance storage (GB)

1690

1690

3370

Architecture

64 bits

I/O performance

Very High (10 Gigabit Ethernet. Full-bisection bandwidth with Placement Groups)

Very High (10 Gigabit Ethernet)

Price (per CPU hour)

$1.30

$2.10

$2.40