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The whole thread comes off as an AWS sales pitch...
by spacecadet 1y ago
The whole thread comes off as an AWS sales pitch...
- dekhn 1y agoI've setup and built my own machines and clusters, as well as setting up grids, and industrial scale infrastructure. I've seen many closet clusters, and clusters administrated by grad students. Since then, I've gone nearly 100% cloud (with a strong preference for AWS). In my experience, there are many tradeoffs using cloud but I think when you consider the entire context (people-cost-time-productivity) AWS ends up being a very powerful way to implement scientific infrastructure. However, in consortia like this, it's usually architected in a way that people with local infrastructure (campus clusters, colo) can contribute- although they tend to be "leaf" nodes in processing pipelines, rather than central players.