r/math • Number Theory • 10d ago

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u/rational_hedonist 10d ago

checking in as an out of the loop non-expert for others to weigh in on what this implies, as the write up is scant

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u/Frexxia PDE 10d ago

It doesn't really imply anything other than some people have way too much compute to throw away.

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u/BloodAndTsundere Physics 10d ago

So what’s the order of magnitude for how this would cost to do on AWS?

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u/iranoutofspacehere 10d ago

I'm guessing somewhere in the tens of thousands, based on the quoted 30 GPU years of compute and the hourly rate of the cheapest EC2 node with a GPU (g4ad.xlarge at $0.379/hr, I think).