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autotune
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Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interest...
How about building an Einstein@Home lab with some of those credits? Help discover some neutron stars.
Debogue
on Aug 3, 2015
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Or Folding at Home for protein folding
jcoffland
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That would be a waste since this would contribute very little to F@H. I'm the lead dev at F@H.
sp332
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Wow, 20,000 GPU cores for 20+ days wouldn't help much?
cing
on Aug 3, 2015
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g2.8xlarge is 4 GPUs and costs 0.6945/hr on spot instance. You could contribute 120 GPUs for 2 weeks, which would be pretty insignificant:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats2
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Can you explain in more detail why the contribution wouldn't be proportional to the value of the credits?
hellbanner
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I thought F@H was processing dependent?
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