High energy & nuclear physics

Compute Cloud EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing)

• Compute Cloud EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing)

• pricing: http://aws.amazon.com/fr/ec2/pricing//185-8840065-1558013/
• « private » virtualized servers (« instances ») of different types
• example: High-CPU Extra Large Instance
• 7 GB of memory
• 20 EC2 Compute Units
• 1690 GB Storage
• pricing on a per hour basis for each instance type
• from $0.065/hour for the small standard "On-Demand" virtual machine running Linux to 8x more for the largest one running Windows (Oct. 2013-EU prices)
• data transfer charge ranges from $0 to $0.12 per GB-month, depending on the volume
• (note : prices in 2011: $0,085/hour upto 29x - transfer price: $0,08 to 0,15!!!)