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Ask HN: Rent Server For A Few Days

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I need a 24 to 48 core server to test some threaded code I have, but I only need it for a few days. Can HN recommend some companies that provide this? Is it possible to get this many cores on a cloud VPS? I need Linux (Debian stable if possible). Thanks for any advice.

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amock
If you really only need this for a couple of days it might be a good idea to rent, but if you'd like some real hardware you can get 24 cores and 64GB of RAM for less than $3000. If you need to test regularly it might be worth it just to buy the hardware.
bmelton
If you need that many cores on a single machine, then I don't know how to help you -- but if you can split them up, Amazon EC2 would probably work.
jconley
HP will work with you on this and you can use their systems remotely. We used them at a past startup of mine and we ran on 128 cores of Itanium 2 fun, for free. If you have a customer for your code that may want to also buy HP hardware, they move quickly. You just have to sign up for their DSPP: http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4c...
aubhat
use AWS EC2, I regularly rent out 15 core machine with 32GB ram for 1$ per hour, you can try getting an instance in a spot market which 20-3% cheaper (though you need to be careful).