![]() Relatively inexpensive, you get complete control over a virtual machine, which is securely stored in the cloud, but can also be made, unmade and played with at the click of a button, and if you have a big processing job you can just create a more powerful instance for it (or three). But I’ve found them ideal for research too. ![]() Like other cloud hosting platforms (Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, etc.) it’s mainly for providing the infrastructure for web applications. You can install another Linux distro alongside ChromeOS easily and relatively seamlessly with crouton, giving you a traditional desktop environment to work with locally, but given Chromebooks’ underwhelming hardware, developing even simple models on them is a non-starter.Īfter a while using a university server, this year I moved all my lab work to Google’s Compute Engine. It’s an interesting, ongoing challenge (a blog post for another day), but one thing I realised very early on was that I’d have to do any serious “lab work” (which for me is sitting at my desk playing with computational models) on a remote machine. When I started my PhD I decided to make my trusty fieldwork laptop – a Google Chromebook – my main work computer and try to do all my research in the cloud.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |