nexus

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cloud

“Cloud” in research computing refers to commercial clouds also sometimes called public clouds: AWS, GCP, Azure, etcetera. Here Virtual Machines are available on a pay-for-use basis like a utility. This page concerns computing resource services such as Virtual Machines, networking, storage; and many many abstractions built up from that starting point. ‘Cloud’ does not mean consumer services such as iCloud and Google Drive.

Essay: Is cloud computing a good idea for you?

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

open topic: access control

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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

This information has a half life of about a year but still has value as a sketch of the landscape.

gpu instances

Log in from VSCode