Has anyone used Google App Engine with a HPC application? is it possible to do parallelism? You can do parallelism (at least in theory) using java + threads, but how many threads can you get? how efficient is it?
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Has anyone used Google App Engine with a HPC application? is it possible to do parallelism? You can do parallelism (at least in theory) using java + threads, but how many threads can you get? how efficient is it?
When using Google App Engine, your program doesn’t run in a complete JRE, but in a sandbox, which does not enable you to create new threads. Therefore, you can’t just use java + threads.
But you can run some concurrent Backends, which are some instances “designed for applications that need faster performance, large amounts of addressable memory, and continuous or long-running background processes”. These backends can be configured and are billable.