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AWS is fantastic for scientific computing. With it you can: - Deploy a thousand servers with GPUs in 10 minutes, churn over a giant dataset, then turn them all
by 0xbadcafebee 4y ago
AWS is fantastic for scientific computing. With it you can:
- Deploy a thousand servers with GPUs in 10 minutes, churn over a giant dataset, then turn them all off again. Nobody ever has to wait for access to the supercomputer.
- Automatically back up everything into cold storage over time with a lifecycle policy.
- Avoid the massive overhead of maintaining HPC clusters, labs, data centers, additional staff and training, capex, load estimation, months/years of advance planning to be ready to start computing.
- Automation via APIs to enable very quick adaptation with little coding.
- An entire universe of services which ramp up your capabilities to analyze data and apply ML without needing to build anything yourself.
- A marketplace of B2B and B2C solutions to quickly deploy new tools within your account.
- Share data with other organizations easily.
AWS costs are also "retail costs". There are massive savings to be had quite easily.
- Fomite 4y agoOne thing to consider: I don't control my AWS account. I don't even have an AWS account in my professional life. I tell my IT department what I want. They tell the AWS people in central IT what they want. It's set up. At some point I get an email with login information. I email them again to turn it off. Do I hate this system? Yes. Is it the system I have to work with? Also yes. "AWS as implemented by any large institution" is considerably less agile than AWS itself.
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