Looking for an online rental PC with many cores

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Looking for an online rental PC with many cores

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For the creation of a bigger net I have been looking to rent a computer for a couple of days online. What I find most of the time are offers per month, I want something per hour or per day. Ideally a server with 256 cores or more. Procedure, install cutechess, play games, download games.

Any good companies?
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Damir wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:36 pm what about this ?

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/an-8t ... -these-are
Cool, but not for (online) rent.
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Re: Looking for an online rental PC with many cores

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The three big players are:

Amazon AWS:
https://aws.amazon.com/

Microsoft Azure:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/

Google Cloud Platform:
https://cloud.google.com/

I made some positive experiences with Google in 2019, but recently I had to talk through the sales department before geeting access to GPUs in their cloud. Someone mentioned that the Amazon Graviton ARM based processor has best core/dollar.

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I've had good luck with https://vast.ai/console/create/ 128 thread machines are about $3.00/hour (US) 64 threads are much cheaper.