Solving trees on a virtual, rented server
Join Date: Aug 2020
Posts: 15
Hi guys,
Sorry for my newbie questions. I'm technologically literate but in this case I feel like a moron.
I want to explore an option of running GTO+ on a rented online server. However, I've never rented a server before and I don't know how it works.
Do I just google: rent a server, then compare CPU options and rent it? Will I be able to somehow install the GTO+ software on any of these virtual machines? Or does it neet to be some special kind of a server?
If I proceed to rent it, open the program and rent it, do I just wait for it to finalize calculations and then proceed to download the solutions to my PC, or is there something I don't know about?
Thank you for help!
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 506
Do a web search on AWS and Azure Infrastructure As A Service(IAAS) virtual machines to start getting some background.
Read the website for your solver software/ask their customer support how to manage licensing and installation on cloud VMs and what the required specs are.
This does make me wonder if there's a niche for doing a value added cloud service for solvers, but I don't have the bandwidth to dig into it at this point. I suspect payment fraud, resistance from the solver IP owners and copycats would make it hard to make a decent go of it.