RE: Re: st: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Statistica, S-PLUS updated

["Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)" <muenchen@utk.edu>]

Argyn, 

R is on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud now. A fellow wrote to the R-help list a year or two ago asking what kind of machine would solve his large problem. The answer was about $20,000 (like Stata, the data usually must be in RAM). He could not afford that & about a week later he had solved it on Amazon. The cost was something like $2.50! 

On the other hand, we investigated replicating our 2,500-core system that's 85% utilized. That was insanely more expensive than purchasing the hardware & hiring an HPC guru to manage it.

The cloud is certainly a game-changer, but not necessarily for all situations. Exciting times!

Bob

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
>statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Argyn Kuketayev
>Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 10:28 AM
>To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>Subject: Re: Re: st: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Statistica, S-PLUS updated
>
>Once someone comes up with an easy way to configure and deploy R in the
>cloud, it will blow everything else out of the water. Cloud is a game changer.
>
>You can get 100 nodes each 68.4 GB RAM, 8 virtual cores, 64-bit Linux at
>$200/hour total price for hardware lease. And you pay as you go, if you get the
>servers for 1 hour, you pay only $200. Imagine how much would this cost with
>SAS or other commercial package just for licensing itself. Unless Stata, SAS and
>others figure out the pay-as-you go licensing, they'll be done in 2 years.
>
>cheers
>--
>Argyn Kuketayev
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