That was interesting. I am testing DT on a slow old machine, this weekend I
hope to have my new desktop setup and ready. I can then test the changes.
Tim
Tim
------ Original message------From: steveDate: Thu, Nov 2, 2017 8:05 PMTo:
[email protected];Aurélien PIERRE;Cc: darktable;Subject:Re: [darktable-dev]
Darktable + Cloud-computing
Worth a look at this first:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuuiUhMr-lQ
On 11/02/2017 08:01 PM,
[email protected] 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" <[email protected]>
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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