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Cloud worked really well for me when I was in school. A lot of the time, I would only need a beefy computer for a few hours at a time (often due to high memory
by slaymaker1907 4y ago
Cloud worked really well for me when I was in school. A lot of the time, I would only need a beefy computer for a few hours at a time (often due to high memory usage) and you can/could rent out spot instances for very cheap. There are about 730 hours per month so the cost calculus is very different for a student/researcher who needs fast turnaround times (high performance), but only for a short period of time.
However, I know not all HPC/scientific computing works that way and some workloads are much more continuous.
- a2tech 4y agoThats how my department uses the cloud--we have an image we store up at AWS geared towards a couple of tasks and we spin up a big instance when we need it, run the task, pull out the results, then stop the machine. Total cost sub-100 dollars. If we had to go the HPC group we'd have to fight with them to get the environment configured, get access to the system, get payment setup, teach the faculty to use the environment, etc. Its just a pain for very little gain.