[R] What is the most cost effective hardware for R?

[Hugh Morgan]

On 05/08/2012 12:14 PM, Zhou Fang wrote:
> How many data points do you have?
>

Currently 200,000.  We are likely to have 10 times that in 5 years.

>   Why buy when you can rent? Unless your hardware is going to be
> running 24/7 doing these analyses then you are paying for it to sit
> idle. You might be better off purchasing computing time from Amazon or
> another cloud computing provider. If you need to run more analyses
> quickly, just buy some more virtual hosts.

Because of the nature of the funding we are likely to be better off 
buying.  We are likely to be running most of the time, most of the 
analysis must be rerun as more data becomes available, and that is 
likely to happen a few times every week.

Thank you for all the pointers, we shall consider them all.


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