Do you know how cheap it is to compute to your heart’s content (maybe your heart is already content with how much you’ve computed thus you’ve never bothered to look into it).
Well I’ll tell you.
On Amazon EC2 one can purchase an 8 core CPU with approximately 8X2.1Ghz chip-cores for $0.68 / hr.
Thus for the small price of $6.80 / hr (the minimum cost to employ a person for an hour) one can obtain 604.8 billion computer clock cycles[1].
To get a baseline comparison, your sweet 2 year old macBook can get you about 6.12 billion clock cycles in one hour for which you paid about $0.01 in electricity and about $0.50 for the computer itself[2].
Ridiculous… 100 macBooks of computing power costs about what a minimum wage employee does.
- this isn’t exactly the number of additions or substractions one can do [↩]
- $2k over 6 years = $1/day, average computer usage probably averages out to be about 2 hours a day [↩]
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