Hi,

I have a friend who is looking to run a few simulations he has implemented in python and needs around 256GB of ram. He is estimating it will take a couple of hours, but he is studying economics so take that with a grain of salt 🤣

For this instance, I recommended GCP, but I felt a bit dirty doing that. So, I was wondering if any of you have a buttload of memory he can burrow? Generally, would you lend your RAM for a short amount of time to a stranger over the internet? (assuming internet acccess is limited to a signle ssh port, other necessary safeguards are in place)

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I do not have any RAM to share, sorry.

    An economics simulation in Python needing 200+GB of RAM sounds preventable.

    In your friend’s shoes, I might start asking for pointers over on the programming.dev Lemmy.

    As others have said, a rewrite in a faster language like C or goLang could help - but my guess is there’s also ways to cut that memory need way down, while still using Python.