GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

Price of GCP

Persistance Disk

Can be used to put all the data/eda/os on it.

Price (per month) Price (per GB per month)
SSD 50GB $8.50 $0.17
SSD 1TB $174.08 $0.17
HDD 50GB $2.00 $0.04
HDD 200GB $8.00 $0.04
HDD 1TB $39.76 $0.04
Snapshot 50GB $1.30 $0.026

Always on instance (24x7)

Can be used as working machine (support VNC) and NFS server

vCPU RAM (GB) Price (per month)
f1-micro Shared 0.60 Free
g1-small Shared 1.70 $13.80
n1-std-1 1 3.75 $24.27
n1-std-2 2 7.50 $48.55

Instance for EDA (10 hours per week, 43.452 hours per month)

vCPU RAM (GB) Price (per month) Price (per hour)
n1-cpu-8 8 7.2 $12.32 $0.2835
n1-std-8 8 30 $16.51
n1-mem-8 8 52 $20.58
n1-cpu-16 16 14.4 $24.65 $0.5673
n1-std-16 16 60 $33.02 $0.7599
n1-cpu-32 32 28.8 $49.29 $1.1344

At the meantime, secondhand server on unixsurplus is “E5-2620 V3 10-CORE 2.4GHz” with “64GB DDR4” and “300GB HDD” is $1,989. It’s n1-std-16 for 2617 hours, 261.7 weeks if 10 hours per week.