Is there an idiot's guide (for folks like me) to using these for GIMPS work? I could always use more power.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;335575]Is there an idiot's guide (for folks like me) to using these for GIMPS work? I could always use more power.[/QUOTE]

It was a fairly easy process, and I am by no means amazing with computers. Basically you go to the ec2 site, make an account and open a micro instance. They have some startup guides there that are fairly straightforward too. You download a pem key and use windows remote desktop to login to the windows one, and an ssh command to login to the Linux one.

[QUOTE=Batalov;335439]Meanwhile my two instances didn't die yet. And I didn't visit them for two months, no sirrie.[/QUOTE]

It appears these finished successfully.
Did you grab two more?

Yep, two more are reaching the end. Every time I remember about them and give a quick look at them, their speed makes me think of
track #2 (Grave Disperato /For wind orchestra and clock/) from [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_and_Songs_from_Weddings_and_Funerals"]Tales and Songs from Weddings and Funerals[/URL].

[YOUTUBE]kCzMZ-IuKTQ[/YOUTUBE]

[QUOTE=TObject;328203]Now the physics question: how fast does the server need to move relative to the observer so that the when the observer counts 744 hours on his or her watch, 750 hours had passed on the server. LOL[/QUOTE]

Requires the server to travel faster than the speed of light. Using currently accepted relativity formulas, there would be no time dilation at warp speed so this is not possible (although there are conflicting theories about time dilation at faster than light travel).

[QUOTE=flashjh;347288]Requires the server to travel faster than the speed of light. (SNIP).[/QUOTE]

Wouldn't it be the other way around--that less time would pass for the server than for the "stationary" observer? (EDIT: .....if the server were the one at relativistic speed.....)

[QUOTE]There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than light
She arose one day in a relative way
And returned on the previous night.[/QUOTE]