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

vCPURAM (GB)Price (per month)
f1-microShared0.60Free
g1-smallShared1.70$13.80
n1-std-113.75$24.27
n1-std-227.50$48.55

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

vCPURAM (GB)Price (per month)Price (per hour)
n1-cpu-887.2$12.32$0.2835
n1-std-8830$16.51
n1-mem-8852$20.58
n1-cpu-161614.4$24.65$0.5673
n1-std-161660$33.02$0.7599
n1-cpu-323228.8$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.