I hope I didn't sound ungrateful... There are resources in the university but they come with overhead and not as much freedom as a VM on which you can do anything.
That said our cluster is about as big as two c4.8xlarge vms.
I am doing my thesis (in the general area of video classification) as an electrical engineer in a Greek University and I am currently running some experiments that try to learn a video representation from local features (kernel codebook encoding) using an SVM variant and stochastic gradient descent.
I could use a couple of c4.8xlarge instances to run the experiments trying out learning parameters. I am currently "competing" for time in the lab's cluster so I end up running the experiments in whatever computer I find available.
Anyway, thanks for the opportunity, it is really generous of you.
I hope I didn't sound ungrateful... There are resources in the university but they come with overhead and not as much freedom as a VM on which you can do anything.
That said our cluster is about as big as two c4.8xlarge vms.