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by angry_octet 4 days ago
I agree the local computation can be a win, a MacBook has a crazy amount of compute. Data visualisation from a local PCIe SSD is way faster.

With a bit of automation you can work locally, submit big jobs to the remote cluster, and transfer the data back automatically. It can help to have an always-on computer that you control. For me this is:

[macbook]*tailscale*[my server]---ssh---[cluster]

This solves the problems of pushing data back to a laptop that might be turned off or moving location, on 4G etc. While a job is running, output files start streaming back with rsync.