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Rapunzel

Hi Folks, I wanted to find out if anyone has experience of renting and using supercomputer time to perform a large number of calculations in an modelling (offline) process.

Looks like I might need it and would appreciate some recommendations.

Thanks.
 
What kind of application is it? (integer only like for crypto, or mainly floating point/finance?).

Some years ago I did use 8 networked Linux servers each with 4 or 6 CPU cores (total about 40 TCP/IP processors for processing the partial jobs) for my biggest simulation yet. I did it on retail cloud servers like this one: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
Nowadays the CPUs have way much more cores/threads, for example top end AMD EPYC have 64c/128 threads, or even more), and one can of course also network many dedicated servers together using fast network links.
 
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Here is an idea, depending on what you call a "super computer" and if you have somewhat of an ongoing need -

A 64 threads / 256G RAM Dell PowerEdge 620 of the Ebay is ~1k.
Renting them from AWS would cost 100-200% of that for 1 month.
 
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Rapunzel said:
Hi Folks, I wanted to find out if anyone has experience of renting and using supercomputer time to perform a large number of calculations in an modelling (offline) process.

Looks like I might need it and would appreciate some recommendations.

Thanks.
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you probably don't need it but you can try a free account with databricks, firebolt, snowflake, ...
 
heispark said:
Modelling? Are you sure? I suspect you mean crypto mining as you post in this trading website...... :sneaky:
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For crypto mining, ASIC fits better than CPU or GPU.
For crypto research, GPU (ie. compute units, vector processors, SIMD) could be used. A cheaper but slower alternative is of course CPU.
 
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