nexus

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cloud

“Cloud” in the context of research computing refers to commercial clouds, for example AWS, GCP and Azure, where Virtual Machines are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. The content of this repo does not however concern “cloud” consumer services like iCloud and Google Drive.

Essay: Is cloud computing a good idea for you?

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references

Cloud computing for research comes at a dollar cost. We are interested in optimizing spend.

open topic: access control

cloud clinics

AWS EC2 Virtual Machines

AWS virtual machines fall into a variety of categories and size scales; so there is some studying up to do in deciding which instance to select. A typical powerful workstation will run between $0.50 and $1.00 per hour; so it is important to Stop (not Terminate) the instance when it is not in use.

Below are remarks on non-GPU and then GPU-based VMs. Following that are instructions for logging in to a VM on AWS by means of the VSCode application.

non-GPU instances

gpu instances

Log in from VSCode