> If you have a random data analysis problem that would take your computer three weeks, why not just pay $10 and get it done in two hours (plus a few hours of debugging)?
I'm facing this very problem myself right now with some GPU-bound calculations. The issue for me is that the software I'm using isn't free, so I'm stuck running it on the one machine that I do have a license for it to run on. It's a very frustrating situation to be in, as the hardware isn't so great.
I wonder if this might be a game changer for software like Matlab, SAS, et al. A licence would buy you the right to one install locally and one on a cloud server. (Although last time I had anything to do with Matlab licensing and user negotiation, they move at a pace common to that of glaciers. With the same temperature.)
I'm facing this very problem myself right now with some GPU-bound calculations. The issue for me is that the software I'm using isn't free, so I'm stuck running it on the one machine that I do have a license for it to run on. It's a very frustrating situation to be in, as the hardware isn't so great.