My home PC is an i7-920 @ 2.67Ghz, with 12GB RAM running Win 7 64-bit.
Optimization seems to take a long time on my machine, so I was wondering if it would be faster if I lease some processing power on Amazon's EC2 cloud server.
The 2 options I'm looking at is either high RAM or high CPU resources (both run Win Server 2008 R2):
1) High-Memory Double Extra Large Instance 34.2 GB of memory, 13 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform
2) High-CPU Extra Large Instance 7 GB of memory, 20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform
My question is:
1) Would NT's Optimizer be able to use the multiple cores in Amazon's virtual server?
2) If #1 is possible, then from a cost-benefit standpoint, would higher RAM or higher CPU (more virtual cores) be preferred?
3) There is also a Cluster option from Amazon: Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large 23 GB memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute Units, 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform, 10 Gigabit Ethernet - would NT's optimizer able to fully utilize the resources available?
Thanks!
-Nick
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