Do any of you have a buttload of RAM sitting around?
Hi,
I have a friend who is looking to run a few simulations he has implemented in python and needs around 256GB of ram. He is estimating it will take a couple of hours, but he is studying economics so take that with a grain of salt 🤣
For this instance, I recommended GCP, but I felt a bit dirty doing that. So, I was wondering if any of you have a buttload of memory he can burrow? Generally, would you lend your RAM for a short amount of time to a stranger over the internet? (assuming internet acccess is limited to a signle ssh port, other necessary safeguards are in place)
HelloRoot
in reply to souperk • • •Why not get a 0.5 or 1 tb nvme ssd and set it all as swap?
It will run probably 10 times slower, but it's cheap and doable.
dgdft
in reply to HelloRoot • • •This is the way.
Depending on the nature of the sim, it could probably even be done with ~80 GB or less of existing SSD space using zram w/ zstd.