Google lowered prices Tuesday for the Preemptible VM instances it first introduced to customers last year, making it less expensive to take advantage of Google Cloud Platform for executing the kind of ...

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Got a cloud computing job that doesn’t need to be completed right away? Google says it has a deal for you. On Monday, the company introduced a new compute service on the Google Cloud Platform that ...

Google’s preemptible virtual machine instances for Compute Engine are now generally available. The company launched these preemptible virtual machines (VMs) about four months ago. What makes this type ...

But GCE offers another instance option - "Preemptible." This means that your instance can be randomly shut down, and will never run more than 24 hours at a time. It's a "crack filler" instance - if ...

In this podcast, Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing describes how the Broad Institute is mapping cancer genes with CycleCloud. According to Stowe, Cycle Computing recently ran a 50,000+ core workload ...

Google Cloud today announced the launch of preemptible GPUs. Like Google’s preemptible VMs (and AWS’s comparable spot instances), these GPUs come at a significant discount — in this case, 50 percent.

If you don't mind running a virtual machine (VM) that will live for just 24 hours, and can be shut down with only 30 seconds advance notice, then Google Inc. might have a great deal for you. It's ...

The public cloud has hit several growing pains over the last several years. From the hurdles of mitigating the cloud security conversations, to the invariable gripes about performance, application ...