I got accepted in this google compute, but then after setting it up, they killed stating my project was not the kind they wanted blablabla...
Did that happen to you guys too?

When you look at that it seems fine, but the cpm is horrible...: (20 per core or something)

:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 45
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 0 @ 3.20GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 600.187
cache size      : 12288 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 12
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 6
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips        : 6384.59
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

Well I got one VPS to see, they allow AVX but they are quite weak...
One of my core is faster than their whole VPSPro...

Thanks.
Anyway i tested it and the AVX (in fact all c3x instances) have negative ROI for me. They are just too expensive.

Hmm, It's still worth it for me...

This is the response I got from Amazon.  I haven't tried it but it seems that only certain instance types actually support AVX and the rest are falsely reporting that they do, which crashes software using the cpu flags to detect AVX.

Quote

Hi,

AVX instructions are supported only when HVM virtualization is used. There are HVM versions of the Amazon Linux AMI and Ubuntu AMI available. Unfortunately AVX cannot be used with a PV Linux AMI due to incompatibilities with some Linux kernels regarding XSAVE instructions.

A list of HVM Amazon Linux AMI IDs is available here: http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/

I apologize for the confusion and any inconvenience this caused.

Thanks so much !
It works!
Too bad we didn't know that earlier :/

I have mined on nividia in the past, though not in AWS EC2, so I do talk from experience

Oh I see.

I am planning to hold on the PTS, not to sell them right away... hoping that they will increase in value.
But I only have 6 so far

slicify.com has free servers!

Awesome I didn't know about them, thank you!