Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - And Now How Much Would You Pay?
ioTeam described this system as follows:
The most computationally intensive aspect of the protocol is an all-atom refinement of the docked complex resulting in more accurate models. This exploration of the solution space can require thousands of EC2 instances for several hours.
Here's what they do:
We have modified our pipeline to submit "must do" refinement jobs on standard EC2 instances and "nice to do" workloads to the Spot Instances.
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