Free Amazon Cloud Rental good for folding?

[untrueparado]

Just wondering, will this help produce significant results? They're providing one free year of cloud computing but I have no idea how to use a cloud computing environment. Thanks.

http://dealnews.com/Microsoft-Window...ee/540688.html

[jimh425]

I suppose you'd need to recompile fah6 into something the servers understand and can execute on the servers. My guess is it would be against the terms of use. If it isn't now, it would be after we absorbed their bandwidth!

[Hickeydog]

Originally Posted by jimh425

I suppose you'd need to recompile fah6 into something the servers understand and can execute on the servers. My guess is it would be against the terms of use. If it isn't now, it would be after we absorbed their bandwidth!

I don't think FaH is that bandwidth intensive, and it certainly wouldn't be nearly as bad a website.

I really don't see these servers as being particularly powerful, but They could be....

[Maniac]

My guess? It's a VM with throttled/limited CPU power.

[jimh425]

Processing bandwidth.

[jmossman]

Speaking of cloud computing, it kinda sucks to see this:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...hp?s=&u=601623

Looks like they burned thier servers in and are done. Imagine what a computer like this could do folding year round. I know this is a business, and can't expect them to run, but it HAS opened the door for other companies to do this. Imagine if all companies that was testing new servers simply folded for a month?

It never ceases to amaze me that not one single wealthy person has built a supercomputer to do something like this, at least that I know of. I guess they're too busy going to charity events and buying $10,000 plates and getting thier pictures taken lol. I would probably win the lottery and wake up the next morning on an island I bought with my speedboat crashed into the rocks, stranded. But I would intend to build that supercomputer.

[AruisDante]

Originally Posted by jmossman

Speaking of cloud computing, it kinda sucks to see this:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...hp?s=&u=601623

Looks like they burned thier servers in and are done. Imagine what a computer like this could do folding year round. I know this is a business, and can't expect them to run, but it HAS opened the door for other companies to do this. Imagine if all companies that was testing new servers simply folded for a month?

It never ceases to amaze me that not one single wealthy person has built a supercomputer to do something like this, at least that I know of. I guess they're too busy going to charity events and buying $10,000 plates and getting thier pictures taken lol. I would probably win the lottery and wake up the next morning on an island I bought with my speedboat crashed into the rocks, stranded. But I would intend to build that supercomputer.

I mean, essentially, that is EXACTLY what supercomputers are used for. It's just that you have to pay a lot of money to get processor time on it. Big research institutes use them to fold proteins quite frequently. But it's not cost effective to have them fold 'randomly' to try and find good combinations to run more intensive simulations on. The whole point of F@H is to use the 'cloud', as in people like you and me that do it for free, to crunch the basic data so that they know exactly what to spend the big money on on the supercomputers.

[jmossman]

Yeah that makes a lot of sense. You'll have to forgive my term "supercomputer", I was thinking more along the lines of a few dozen servers that someone could fund. Not a powerful, organized, well staffed deal like HPCS was. I looked into it a bit and it turns out they often do more of this kinda stuff in burn-ins than I thought.

Come on Sean Penn, fund us some servers! We'll do the legwork, just give us a check.

[johnerz]

Look at this EVGA thread should help. looks worhwhile as well :0

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?h...page=1#1420042

[jmossman]

Sweet, I can't believe it's possible to get enough power to do 50,000PPD or so. Makes me very curious what thier services will actually cost.

[Maniac]

There are probably very few people using the servers right now. When more people start using it, I doubt they will allot that much CPU power to a single VM.

[jmossman]

Trying to set up my account now. Stupid Win7 firewall, lol. Just do a search on Putty and Win7, seems no one has much luck.

EDIT:
Lol I give up. Keep getting the error many others have been getting. PuTTY Fatal Error "Network error:Permission denied" It's an issue with Windows firewall blocking access, but nothing I do will remedy it. Even turning FW off it won't work. Tried making an exception for it giving it port 22, but nothing. The odd thing is many have no such issue, the guide is even written for Win7. I even tried moving Putty to another drive which seemed to fix some issues for others. Apparently it's technically a user account issue, rather than firewall.