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Mathematica instances on AWS vs. Azure

I am looking for advice on deploying Mathematica for HPC in an on-demand cloud environment. I occasionally have Mathematica projects that require parallel computing and large amounts of RAM. These generally involve clustering, multi-dimensional scaling, geospatial transformation of large lists and geospatial plotting. I am currently running Mathematica 10.4 on an academic HPC network, but have real trouble getting the configuration I need (12 cores, 256 GB RAM, GPU array, SSD working drive) at any reasonable priority. I am looking at deploying on AWS or Azure.

Does anybody have experience with either service?

How is the Mathematica licensing handled (is it machine locked requiring a dedicated server?)

Any recommendations for OS? (Linux vs. Windows Server...I know, but I had to ask)

Thanks!
POSTED BY: Martin Zand
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Michael Stern
Michael Stern
Posted 8 years ago

I installed Mathematica and a constellation of related applications and data services via iLand (http://www.iland.com/). They basically set up a virtual Windows box in the cloud, to which I could RDP from wherever, and provided extensive redundancy and backup. I installed all my software there and used it as though it were a local machine, although it wasn't. The cost came to about $800/month.
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