Ask HN: Any interest in cheap High Performance Computing?

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a year ago

I noticed how cheap Hetzner's dedicated vCPUs were compared to big-name cloud providers. Comparing Hetzner vs GCP: the pricing for 16 vCPU, 64GB RAM - 96.49EUR / month vs 609.71USD / month.

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud#pricing

https://cloud.google.com/compute/vm-instance-pricing?hl=en

This made me think about running a cheap High Performance Computing service on Hetzner.

Would anyone be interested in such a service? It'd allow you to define (via a Dockerfile) a high performance computing environment, and start it / communicate with it / destroy it via a REST API. Each start would provision a new VM: it'd take 1 minute for the machine to start listening. This would keep costs extremely low.

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