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 Cloud computing is nothing else then setting up a new PC somewhere else based on a pre-build computer image, just like setting up a Virtual PC. The only difference is, that you will get a real server running the operating system of your choice and not an emulated one.
-As ENVI-met runs on WINDOWS systems only, Microsoft Azure is the first choice, simply because they offer pre-configured maschines running WINDOWS. Once registered, you can easily select between a number of recent WINDOWS versions (mostly the Server versions) plus you can select the hardware you would like to have. As "to have" means "to buy" this of course defines the cost of your cloud adventure. Selecting a PC with 12 cores and a i7 CPU for example will get pretty expensive. However, you will only be charged for the time the PC is actually up and working...
+As ENVI-met runs on WINDOWS systems only, Microsoft Azure is the first choice, simply because they offer pre-configured machines running WINDOWS. Once registered, you can easily select between a number of recent WINDOWS versions (mostly the Server versions) plus you can select the hardware you would like to have. As "to have" means "to buy" this of course defines the cost of your cloud adventure. Selecting a PC with 12 cores and a i7 CPU for example will get pretty expensive. However, you will only be charged for the time the PC is actually up and working...
-At the time, Microsoft offers a EUR 150 free depot for new registrants. That might be enough to run a couple of ENVI-met simulations for you. If you are part of the MSDN network, you will a recharge of at least EUR 75 each month for a very small membership fee. For universities or similar there are even better options for computing at low cost, both for research and [[http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/community/education/|education]].
+At the time, Microsoft offers a EUR 150 free depot for new registrants. That might be enough to run a couple of ENVI-met simulations for you. If you are part of the MSDN network, you will get a recharge of at least EUR 75 each month for a very small membership fee. For universities or similar there are even better options for computing at low cost, both for research and [[http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/community/education/|education]].
-Once you have choosen your PC configuration you can start to create 1 to 1.000 copies of the PC system you have choosen, this can even be done using the Powershell.  You also need to configure a shared drive to which the model files and the calculated results will go.
+Once you have chosen your PC configuration you can start to create 1 to 1.000 copies of the PC system you have chosen, this can even be done using the Powershell.  You also need to configure a shared drive to which the model files and the calculated results will go.
-Finally, you need to log in into your new computer(s) via Remote Desktop and install ENVI-met. (There might be ways to offer pre-configured ENVI-met maschines but we have not figured that out so far.)
+Finally, you need to log in into your new computer(s) via Remote Desktop and install ENVI-met. (There might be ways to offer pre-configured ENVI-met machines but we have not figured that out so far.)
 Then, you start your model and (hopefully) get your model results from some computer far away.
-It is of course important -like on your local PC- to check the simulation progress. It would be anyoing if your simulation has crashed and you would need to pay for a cloud computer doing nothing....
+It is of course important -like on your local PC- to check the simulation progress. It would be annoying if your simulation has crashed and you would need to pay for a cloud computer doing nothing....