Worth a look at this first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuuiUhMr-lQ
On 11/02/2017 08:01 PM, n61...@gmail.com wrote: > 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 Adler > *Date: *Thu, Nov 2, 2017 7:08 PM > *To: *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 > <mailto: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 <http://aurelienpierre.com> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > <mailto:darktable-dev%2bunsubscr...@lists.darktable.org> > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail > todarktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > <mailto:%20darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org> ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
