Reference Implementation, TPL & Cost?

Question

Are there any reference implementations leveraging the TPL and the effect on cost?

Answer 1

Hi,

If you choose Pay-as-you-go offer the pricing is based on the comupte instance size you choose and you may use TPL (of cource you need at least medium instance to leverage it) depending on your needs:

Compute

• Small instance (default): $0.12 per hour
• Medium instance: $0.24 per hour
• Large instance: $0.48 per hour
• Extra large instance: $0.96 per hour

comupte instance size options:

Compute Instance Size	CPU	Memory	Instance Storage	I/O Performance
Small	1.6 GHz	1.75 GB	225 GB	Moderate
Medium	2 x 1.6 GHz	3.5 GB	490 GB	High
Large	4 x 1.6 GHz	7 GB	1,000 GB	High
Extra large	8 x 1.6 GHz	14 GB	2,040 GB	High

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Answer 2

Sean, have you found a reference implementation that leverage the TPL.  I have been unable to successfully get multi core Azure VMs to scale processing cpu-intensive workloads.  After taking into account network latency, it seems that the TPL does not recognize multiple cores in Azure.