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Table 5 Cost-time analysis for 3GB simulations on EC2

From: Flood modelling for cities using Cloud computing

Name

Cores

Memory

Concurrent

Unit Cost

Hours

Cost per simulation hour

Large

4

7.5

2

$0.34

190,000

$0.17

Extra Large

8

15

4

$0.68

190,000

$0.17

High Memory XL

6.5

17.1

5

$0.50

323,000

$0.10

Double XL

13

34.2

11

$1.00

355,300

$0.091

Quad XL

26

68.4

22

$2.00

355,300

$0.091

High CPU XL

20

7

2

$0.68

95,000

$0.34

Cluster Compute

33.5

23

7

$1.60

141,312

$0.229