UC Berkeley launches SkyPilot to help navigate soaring cloud costs
I wonder why UC Berkeley doesn't build a proper HPC, they have a Data School and should provide this service for free to their faculties. We have "free" HPC resources at TU Dresden (Germany) (meaning: faculties do not need to pay for using HPC resources and they are not calculated in project budgets). I once applied for a job at University of Virginia, and they didn't have a HPC - everything was bought from AWS. When students accidently left stuff running, the professor had to beg Amazon to reimburse the fees. This was the main reason I was hesitant taking the offer. I even calculated building my own "Cloud" with a Proxmox cluster at home, so that I could teach students the basic stuff.