Instead think of how many people have multiple computers at home. I have a
desktop, a laptop, my wife has laptop, kids....Most homes have more than one
computer. For some of the more complex stuff it would be interesting to
potentially off load to a local spare machine. I know audio systems do this for
virtual instruments (brother is a hobby audiophiles)
Tim
------ Original message------From: Steven AdlerDate: Thu, Nov 2, 2017 7:08
PMTo: Aurélien PIERRE;Cc: darktable;Subject:Re: [darktable-dev] Darktable +
Cloud-computing
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 gives you remote access to Linux instances with Nvidia
GPUs for 0.76 US $/hour (g2.2
instances, 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
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