If you happen to have a GCE account, you might try to create a C3 machine type - they seem to be in public preview, and at least for a while are quite free to run (you still pay for disk, but CPU/RAM are free). I'm spinning up a few VMs to throw at some compute projects, though there's hardly anything with work I care to run anymore. CPDN is perpetually out of work, World Community Grid is trainwrecking again and not even running, so I'm pretty much limited to Einstein@Home work right now.
Let it use more RAM, though. Defaults are too low for a dedicated compute box.
Also, GCE has changed from preemptable instances to spot instances that are rather radically cheaper to run for interruptible compute.
Let it use more RAM, though. Defaults are too low for a dedicated compute box.
Code:
<global_preferences>
<disk_max_used_gb>30.0</disk_max_used_gb>
<disk_min_free_gb>0.5</disk_min_free_gb>
<disk_max_used_pct>90.0</disk_max_used_pct>
<ram_max_used_busy_pct>90.0</ram_max_used_busy_pct>
<ram_max_used_idle_pct>90.0</ram_max_used_idle_pct>
<work_buf_min_days>1</work_buf_min_days>
<cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>100000.000000</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
</global_preferences>Also, GCE has changed from preemptable instances to spot instances that are rather radically cheaper to run for interruptible compute.
