Re:Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting com...
by jkot on Monday August 03, 2015 @04:34PM
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I would probably try to use it for some publicity. Prove if NSA can do some stuff, like breaking SSL certificate.
Or you could recover perhaps 30% of your money by mining coins using spot instances.
Other option is to donate CPU time to Folding@Home (cancer research) or other similar project.
And finally my open-source project could use some stress testing :-). I have concurrent database engine. One of the way to catch concurrency issues, is to randomly insert delays around code, and hope it will trigger some rare race condition. I think single run will take a few years of CPU time :-)
Or you could recover perhaps 30% of your money by mining coins using spot instances.
Other option is to donate CPU time to Folding@Home (cancer research) or other similar project.
And finally my open-source project could use some stress testing :-). I have concurrent database engine. One of the way to catch concurrency issues, is to randomly insert delays around code, and hope it will trigger some rare race condition. I think single run will take a few years of CPU time :-)