Nice! This ties in with the discussion yesterday on HN about data center utilization. Good for saving money and the end result must be lower global energy use if this also catches on with other providers (AWS already offers something similar).
When I worked at Google in 2013 part of my job was running very large calculations that were often pre-empted. I usually ran at the lowest priority and was in effect using spare capacity. No hassles, assuming that getting runs completed was not too time sensitive.
When I worked at Google in 2013 part of my job was running very large calculations that were often pre-empted. I usually ran at the lowest priority and was in effect using spare capacity. No hassles, assuming that getting runs completed was not too time sensitive.