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Re:AWS doesn't make sense for scientific computing by ptero on Friday October 07, 2022 @02:19PM (#33125047)
> there's a lot of risk they're not taking into account

I see it the other way: experimental scientists operate with unreliable systems all the time: fickle systems, soldered one-time setups, shared lab space, etc. Computing is just one more thing that is not 100% reliable (but way more reliable than some other equipment), and usb data sticks serve as a good enough data backup.

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Re:AWS doesn't make sense for scientific computing by mangecoeur on Friday October 07, 2022 @03:37PM (#33125932)
Or your university might have it's own backup system. We have a massive central tape-based archive that you can run nightly backups to.
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