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
