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The main value is that you can pay money to have decent network and storage with the hyperscalers. Which none of the intermediate-size cloud services offer to m
by fock 2y ago
The main value is that you can pay money to have decent network and storage with the hyperscalers. Which none of the intermediate-size cloud services offer to my knowledge?
> I could spend a few weeks (months?) compiling
why would you compile infra-stuff?! Usually this is nicely packaged...
> random GNU-certified "alternatives" for Cloud Services but
For application software you have to take care of this also with the cloud or are you just using the one precompiled environment they offer? Which cloud services do you need anyway - in our area (MatSci), things are very, very POSIX-centered and that is simple to set up.
- moralestapia 2y ago>Usually this is nicely packaged... That has almost never been my experience with "alternatives" but if you can provide a few links I would like to learn about them.
- fock 2y agowell, I don't know what you use? however - ZFS is in Ubuntu now, you can host a nice NFS-server easily. MiniIO is a single Go binary, databases are packaged too. - Slurm is packaged too! I have to admit this gets hairy if you want to have something like https://github.com/NVIDIA/pyxis https://github.com/NVIDIA/pyxis but still this is far from arcane "alternative" software but the standard. If you buy Nvidia, it comes with your DGX-server just like its rented out by Amazon... the main remaining pain point I would see is actually netbooting/autoprovisioning the machines (at least this was annoying with us).