On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 5:03 PM parisse <bernard.pari...@ujf-grenoble.fr> wrote: > Le vendredi 7 décembre 2018 12:15:56 UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik a écrit : >> >> you can certainly get free cloud resources from Google, to spin out >> Linux (and not only) VMs with many cores, they have a faculty >> programme like this. >> I've been using it since Sept. >> https://cloud.google.com/edu/ >> > > I don't think I'm eligible
I think a MCF at a university in France would be as eligible as an analogue of MCF in a UK university, like me: https://cloud.google.com/edu/?options=research-credits#options > and even if I was, I don't want to depend from google or any company for > something like that (the risk of IP problems is much too high IP problems while working with open source software? Really? (of course, companies that sell hardware and university system administrators might be saying that cloud computing providers have horns on their heads and make you sign off your soul with a blood-filled pen...) > and anyway I don't like the idea that private company should replace public support for research). Either I can have ssh access to some university linux server somewhere The reality is that many universities already moved to renting servers in datacenters, and this will become more and more prevalent. There are universities in UK that do not have any servers at all, and run CS education programs more or less fully in the cloud. Just a couple of days ago I spoke to someone from U. of Portsmouth, where every CS major students gets issued a linux VM at the beginning of their study, and do most of their graded coursework there (at a cost for the university for under 7 euro per student per year). > or this will be delayed until I buy myself a laptop with more than 2 (reals) > threads. whereas you could run your tests on a 100-core VM, for free... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
