Google cloud platform research credits

[Samuel Lelièvre]

Dear Sage-devel,

In mid June 2019 I submitted an application to
Google's "research credits" programme for
"Google Cloud Platform".

The project "SageMath continuous integration"
that I submitted was accepted in early July, and
I was awarded 5 k USD credits on GCP, valid
for a duration of 6 months.

(Thanks to Dima Pasechnik for suggesting to
apply to this programme and for providing his
previous application that I used as a template).

With the help of Julian Rüth and Erik Bray I set up
some gitlab-ci runners to help with the continuous
integration efforts they started.

The gitlab runners are eating up the credits rather
slowly. There are still 3 k€ credits left and they
expire on 09 Jan 2020.

Can you think of any ways to use these credits
that would benefit the SageMath project?

Kind regards,
Samuel

[E. Madison Bray]

Hi Samuel,

Thank you for pointing this out.

Suffice to say, the credits are already benefiting the Sage project.
It's a shame they would "expire" before we might even get a chance to
use them. And then what?

I wonder if we can ask Google for an extension...

[Dima Pasechnik]

there used to be possible to send email to
gcpresear...@google.com to request an extension


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[Léo Brunswic]

One can also try OVH they have a "startup" program which also gives
5000€ over 6 months. It's not a research program but it's worth a try.

[Léo Brunswic]

Hi,

  I was thinking that a patchbot fulltime testing roughly one ticket
every hour costs roughly 10€/month in electricity (it depends a lot on
the configuration of course...).  Also, say we have roughly 12 ticket
update every day and say we would like to check tickets for 10 different
OS ( a hand full of debian based, linuxmint, gentoo, windows 8 and 10, 
OSX). We would need 5 "average" machine running full time thus 50€/month

We could rationalize this cost by using virtual machines : VPS such as
googles of OVHs can be configured with a panel of OS, they would cost
more that 50€/month but such credit covers this cost. Considering the
prices of OVH for instance a linux machine costs 15€/month

One could of course leave a computer at the office but one would just
make the lab/university endorse the cost.