[cstreit]

Agree with the above. AWS or Google Cloud will scale out on demand. You might find that it ends up vastly cheaper if the horsepower is only required occasionally.

We did an experiment where an process that ran on 62 cores for about 8 hours submitted to Google cloud finished in 20 minutes at the cost of $112 for the run. An enterprise class machine with 62 RISC cores and Terabytes of data could cost upwards of $2-3M. That's a lot of submissions!