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Not to threadjack, but: what's a good alternative for the occasional high-ram, high-CPU-usage compute-intensive task? Say I wanted a machine to run some MCMC s

Not to threadjack, but: what's a good alternative for the occasional high-ram, high-CPU-usage compute-intensive task? Say I wanted a machine to run some MCMC simulations, and needed 32GB RAM and a fast i7-class CPU. Where would I find one?

aroch 12y ago
Hetzner if you plan on using it fairly regularly: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market https://robot.your-server.de/order/market Rackspace Cloud for relatively cheap compute once in a blue moon
colechristensen 12y ago
AWS. (obviously) For an instance you run only rarely the somewhat higher cost of EC2 instances compared to other providers should be fairly irrelevant. You'll find options from about 30 to 80 cents an hour.
acc00 12y ago
Depends on the value of "occasional", but did you try asking your friends? I've seen that being done around here, since the hardware you're describing really is pretty close to a beefy desktop/home server which usually spend their lives idly spinning their fans.
drl42 12y ago
AWS spot instances
joshz 12y ago
AWS or www.dominoup.com if it's with Python, R, Matlab or julia
gsteinb88 12y ago
I've had some great interactions with the team at (but haven't had the need to use yet for anything intensive) rescale.com
henpa 12y ago
http://ovh.com/us http://ovh.com/us is the best I found!
- lelandbatey 12y ago
  Just to put in endorsement: I've used OVH for years, and I love their service. Just this past week while upgrading a server I accidentally screwed up my GRUB configuration and couldn't boot back up. However, they noticed the downtime problem and emailed me saying that a technician had been dispatched to look at the problem. Within 15 minutes, they fixed my GRUB configuration and had my server back up. And, they didn't charge me any for the work the technician did. It was awesome, and they immediately won my long-time business!
mikeyur 12y ago
Incero Instant would probably be a good place to look. Dedicated servers with per-minute billing: http://incero.com/instant http://incero.com/instant E3 w/ 32GB ram or dual E5 with 384GB ram.
jsabo 12y ago
Rackspace recently rolled out 'cloud' dedicated servers that are designed for this use case. You just pay for the time that you have the server, so for workloads like you described I think it's worth checking out. See here for more info: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal/ Disclaimer: I work for Rackspace

aroch 12y ago

Hetzner if you plan on using it fairly regularly: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market https://robot.your-server.de/order/market Rackspace Cloud for relatively cheap compute once in a blue moon

colechristensen 12y ago

AWS. (obviously) For an instance you run only rarely the somewhat higher cost of EC2 instances compared to other providers should be fairly irrelevant. You'll find options from about 30 to 80 cents an hour.

acc00 12y ago

Depends on the value of "occasional", but did you try asking your friends? I've seen that being done around here, since the hardware you're describing really is pretty close to a beefy desktop/home server which usually spend their lives idly spinning their fans.

drl42 12y ago

AWS spot instances

joshz 12y ago

AWS or www.dominoup.com if it's with Python, R, Matlab or julia

gsteinb88 12y ago

I've had some great interactions with the team at (but haven't had the need to use yet for anything intensive) rescale.com

henpa 12y ago

http://ovh.com/us http://ovh.com/us is the best I found!

lelandbatey 12y ago
Just to put in endorsement: I've used OVH for years, and I love their service. Just this past week while upgrading a server I accidentally screwed up my GRUB configuration and couldn't boot back up. However, they noticed the downtime problem and emailed me saying that a technician had been dispatched to look at the problem. Within 15 minutes, they fixed my GRUB configuration and had my server back up. And, they didn't charge me any for the work the technician did. It was awesome, and they immediately won my long-time business!

mikeyur 12y ago

Incero Instant would probably be a good place to look. Dedicated servers with per-minute billing: http://incero.com/instant http://incero.com/instant E3 w/ 32GB ram or dual E5 with 384GB ram.

jsabo 12y ago

Rackspace recently rolled out 'cloud' dedicated servers that are designed for this use case. You just pay for the time that you have the server, so for workloads like you described I think it's worth checking out. See here for more info: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal/ Disclaimer: I work for Rackspace