@digitalraven This is why I can’t understand the idea that groups that need this kind of computing wouldn’t just buy the hardware and learn to or find someone to manage it. A few months at September’s prices would pay for some ridiculously powerful hardware. A few months at today’s prices would pay for some ridiculously powerful and ridiculously overpriced hardware now.

Too many people believed the marketing bull telling everyone to move everything to “the cloud”. People who don’t understand that they’re being led by salespeople also don’t have the foresight to understand how badly things can go, at least not until they go badly, like they have now.

@AnachronistJohn I do not see the relevance of what you are saying, since it appears at best tangential to what I posted.

My research group _is_ buying the hardware and I am managing it, there is no "cloud" involved (except for the AI-boosting scum). It's a matter of timings, research grants, and budget approvals that we have to buy now rather than back in September.

@digitalraven Oops. I misread. I thought this was cloud spending. My apologies

Yes, getting approval in appropriate amounts of time is difficult and timing always has Murphy’s Law working against us.