Cloud Computing for Research at Scale

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From laptop to cluster

Most research workloads outgrow a laptop quickly. Cloud infrastructure offers elastic compute on demand.

Scaling up

# launch a spot compute instance (example)
gcloud compute instances create worker-01 \
  --zone=us-central1-a \
  --machine-type=n2-standard-16 \
  --image-family=ubuntu-2204-lts \
  --preemptible

Always clean up resources after a job to avoid runaway costs.

Costs and limits

Preemptible/spot instances give large discounts but can be reclaimed at any time.

Spot safety

Design jobs to checkpoint frequently so a reclaim never loses hours of work.

The takeaway

Cloud makes research reproducible and scalable, as long as you monitor cost.