Title: I&#x27;m doing embarrassingly parallel simulations (think Monte Carlo runs of a legacy scientific binary) and am trying to find the cheapest possible host source of x86 compute, at scale. These are jobs that are single-threaded, use maybe 2-4GB of ram, last an hour, and can be checkpointed if necessary. A c5.18xlarge on AWS has 36 physical (real) cores and on the spot market is $0.74&#x2F;hr which works out to $0.02&#x2F;core-hour. Does anyone know of cheaper options?
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