[HTCondor-devel] Google Compute Engine is now billed per-minute

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kinda cool:

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/05/ushering-in-next-generation-of.html

"Google Compute Engine provides a fast, consistently high-performance environment for running virtual machines. Later today, you’ll be able to go online to cloud.google.com and start using Compute Engine.

In addition, we’re introducing new Compute Engine features:

- Sub-hour billing charges for instances in one-minute increments with a ten-minute minimum, so you don’t pay for compute minutes that you don’t use"

This makes the case stronger for a more fine-grained decision process for automatically provisioning and shutting nodes down in response to load. 

-Erik