fastec2 script: Running and monitoring long-running tasks

This is part 2 of a series on fastec2. For an introduction to fastec2, see part 1. Spot instances are particularly good for long-running tasks, since you can save a lot of money, and you can use more expensive instance types just for the period you’re actually doing heavy computation. fastec2 has some features to make this use case much more convenient. Let’s see an example. Here’s what we’ll be doing: Use an inexpensive on-demand monitoring instance for collecting results (and optionally for l...

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