There are tasks, which require huge amount of processor-power and time to calculate (couple of days, maybe weeks). Using virtual machines in cloud, like Amazon AWS or Google Cloud is the best solution in these situations. You don’t need to buy any new hardware, you can simply rent a required number of VM-s in cloud, use it for the given tasks and forget it.
Managing this kind of big job isn’t so simple, if you go straight in sequential order. This way you finish the first part, send the results to the next part, run that new task and so on. It’s not an optimal approach, because every group of tasks need to wait for the previous to finish.
This problems can be accomplished much quicker if we use parallelism. Our team has couple of years of experience in optimizing this implementations. We have developed software tools for high efficiency using the resources on the AWS platform. This programs have high efficiency in automatically starting calculations, managing the processes, retrieving data and summarizing it into final results on even more hundreds of virtual machines. If you have ever tried to start and manage lot of processes on the cloud platform, than you know, how difficult and time-consuming it can be. There’s a big chance of mistakes and beside that, the costs of not optimally used rented processor time can be huge.
Our system runs Linux-based virtual machines, because it is more cheaper than the same Windows VM.
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Every of above advantages means more money in your pocket !