martin.novy wrote: ↑August 23rd, 2020, 10:32 am
I am researching possibilities of occasional using of cloud computing (a container or a virtual machine) for CA simulations; and whether it could be cheaper/better for me than trying to buy a small, relatively silent, linux server and running it at home.
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Generally, I'd prefer remote server instead of running at home. Massive computing makes noise and abundant heat, which is anoying ( especially in summer).
Those error-tolerable and distributable computing programmes like APGsearch works well on Cloud. I rent several 1Core-2G instance for 3 month or 12 month. My page on Catagolue
gol.hatsya.co.uk/user/inspirehep@gmail.com shows the work.
The fantastic point of cloud is that you can have unimaginable compute resouces at the moment you pay. 32Cores CPUs or Tesla T4 is availble at anytime.
If you do need those 1Core tiny server, contact me (via Email or discord or sth) . I'll send a SSH account to you.
have a nice day!
Edit. recently, I found the spot price instance of a local provider is highly easy to use. it provides 16 vitual core & 32GB instance, and a NAS system that could be used as a shared HDD.
Dylan Chen wrote: ↑February 6th, 2021, 5:01 am
My search 'tool' is some rented cloud machines, at spot price.
Recent days,I found that their NAS has the same speed to an HDD (R/W at 150+MB/s) , and the speed will increase linearly with the total storage, so I could get 200+MB/s when the LSSS data folder reach 300GB.
The NAS can be attached to multiply machines.
the finding of Anura & Soba (3c7 spaceship)is from those machines.