I need a beast for a week
Hello, I am after a powerful dedicated machine for a one week period to do FFmpeg testing and analysis.
The CPU must be modern and powerful. 32GB of ram is fine and 120GB SSD/NVMe.
I prefer a US west or mid location.
My last testing was done with an E-2246G
This time I am wanting to do a thorough run-through and analysis converting h264 and h265 mp4 to webm with vp9 at many settings, with legal media files.
Usually, I will jump on something like a one time 50% off discount at a random provider but COVID has made things quite on that front. I will only need the machine for a week and don't see any sense in paying out largely for a full month.
Fire away your offers please
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You could spin something up on one of the major clouds with the credits they provide?
Cloud is still shared with neighbors. I doubt it will give the correct numbers for his use case (analysis of converting multi video formats)
PS: I have an idle E-2276G if interested.
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That's not quite true. The clouds do offer dedis. The free credits should get you about 100 hours a dedi time on GCP according to my napkin math. Their non-dedi vCPUs are also pinned to HT threads so not as susceptible to noisy neighour syndrome as a normal VPS
Anyway...a proper dedi in the LES sense is probably preferrable though.
Used the "Bare Metal" product offered by Vultr for something like this workload once: https://www.vultr.com/products/bare-metal/#pricing
Worked great and process was as streamlined as we know it from the simple VPS setups. It's not cheap, however...
I have no-trust syndrome. even a Cloud from a mainstream provider with a dedicated CPU can still be provisioned on Intel Xeon Silver Generation 1 and been running for years. its Silicon is already passed out. compare that to what he has now and do the math.
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Maybe you can try the High Frequency Compute line of Vultr as they do mention that the processors are +3GHz and have listed out the Geekbench scores if that helps in your decision.
Also, if you do not have an account with Vultr then you can get $100 credit (30 days validity) if you signup through my referral code here: https://www.vultr.com/?ref=8526391-6G
Or go with IBM's hourly baremetal provisioning, I haven't explored it myself or tried them but its IBM. Don't know if they would consider an individual instead of an enterprise account.
https://cloud.ibm.com/gen1/infrastructure/provision/bm
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Do you really need SSD? How new does the cpu have to be? I have a few HDD-based, mostly idle dedis that I'm using primarily for storage. If you want to burn cpu on one for a week I could set something up for you. But they are not the latest of greatest. i5-3570S, i7-3770, and I think E3-1240v3.
We might have room for you to go wild in Los Angeles for a week or so. How many cores do you need? Send a PM if interested.
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Hello,
We can help you with this. For a week, I can dedicate some resources to you. I can give you half of the CPU capacity of the server. 32 GB and 100 NVMe storage. I can let you test it for a day to see if you are happy with the performance it has. The price point would be around $20 USD.
Intel Xeon E3-1230v6 at 3.9Ghz maximum speed. DDR4 2133 Mhz memory. NVMe and 100Mbps speed dedicated to you with bursts of 500Mbps.
Let me know if you have any interest.
Regards.