-Now that you know more about determining your personal computer's computing and storage capacity, as well as how to determine or estimate the files sizes that you might use for your research, you can begin to assess if your personal computer is up to the task. When determining what your computing needs might be, remember to evaluate how many files you might use in your analyses, the file sizes, the amount of RAM and CPUs (and possibly GPUs that your computer has) and some level of understanding for how intensive the computing tasks are that you plan to perform. How do you assess this? If the files that you intend to use in your analysis are quite large for your computer's storage capacity, then it is likely that your computer might struggle to work with such files. This might also be the case if you plan to use many smaller files (such as hundreds or thousands, but smaller files can add up quickly). Finally, if you plan to perform many steps on your files in your analysis, this may also require more computing resources than you have available on your current personal computer. Shared computing options will generally have the capacity to allow you to do your work, unless you have very large data needs and hope to use a very specialized computing platform that may not support large-scale work. If you have plans to analyze large datasets, checking the computing capacity of the local or remote computing options that you are interested before you start an analysis would be a good idea. Cloud computing options can be great if you need more efficiency, as there are no job queues to worry about like with other, more traditional shared resources.
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