My PC is more than capable of processing photos and from what I've seen of v2.3, the new GPU support in Darktable makes processing much much faster. Cloud based GPU support would be great for advanced AI algorithms for things like auto background replacement. But still GPUs are advancing rapidly and I doubt we will need cloud GPU augmentation for some years.
On Nov 2, 2017 6:17 PM, "Aurélien PIERRE" <rese...@aurelienpierre.com> wrote: > Hi, > > as top-notch image processing algorithms become more and more demanding in > computing power, but often highly parallelizable, and pictures resolutions > double almost every 5 years (now 52 Mpx for the Canon 5DS R, 45 Mpx for the > Nikon D850), most computers become hardly enough to just open the pictures. > Let alone apply complex filters on them… > > Serious amateurs and pro may want to buy expensive workstations but… > Cloud-computing solutions like Amazon EC3 > <https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/?nc1=h_ls> gives you remote > access to Linux instances with Nvidia GPUs for 0.76 US $/hour (g2.2 > instances <https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/>, 8 vCPU). The > instances are scalable in size automatically and several Linux distros are > provided (Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, CentOS). At this price, you get the > price of your killer PC (5000 $) in more than 6500 hours of use. That's 5 > years of working-time (assuming 48 weeks/year, 35 h/week, because I'm > French). > > So… what do you think of having the heavy filters processed in Darktable > through the servers of Amazon or anybody else instead of having to break > the bank for a new (almost) disposable computer ? Possible or > science-fiction ? How many of you don't have a 1MB/s or faster internet > connection ? How difficult would it be to code ? > > Full disclaimer : I have no previous experience in cloud computing and no > Amazon shares. > -- > > *Aurélien PIERRE* > aurelienpierre.com > ------------------------------ > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
