With some handwaving it could be about $82.5K (computation spread over 1 year) or $125K (computation done in 1 month). total cost was 35 CPU years (Intel Nehalem, 4-core, 2.8GHz)
1 EC2 compute unit is about 1 GHz Xeon
let's assume 1 Google unit = 12 EC2 units (3x4 cores)
High-CPU Extra Large instance = 20 EC2 units
35*12 = 420 EC2 unit years = 5040 EC2 unit months
= 21 HiCPU XL instances for 1 year
= 252 HiCPU XL instances for 1 month
Putting this into AWS calculator [1] yields: $82,491.36 (21 HiCPU XL reserved instances for 1 year)
$125,435.52 (252 HiCPU XL on-demand instances for 1 month)
[1] http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html------ Edit: It could be actually a bit more, Nehalems seem to be faster than my first estimate. Plugging in EC2 computing unit comparison from Cluster Compute instance (which has 2x quadcore Nehalem), 1 Google unit can be 16.75 EC2 units. This gives: $114K for 1 year of 29 reserved HiCPU XL instances
$166K for 1 year of 18 reserved cluster compute instances
$173K for 1 month of 348 on-demand HiCPU XL instances
$246K for 1 month of 210 on-demand cluster compute instances
-----Edit2: Dedicated server hosting would be much cheaper. For example, from Hetzner [2] it would cost just about 26K EUR (= $34K) to rent 35 dedicated quadcore Nehalem servers for 1 year. [2] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr... |