Show HN: Spending GCloud for startups credits on a free demo

https://start.cloudbrowser.xyz/?demo!

by browsergap • 6 years ago

16 11 6 years ago

start.cloudbrowser.xyz

bobblywobbles• 6 years ago

Can someone explains what this site actually _does_?

superasn• 6 years ago

Think it runs a cloud hosted browser in your browser similar to browserling.com

londons_explore3• 6 years ago

Do these browsers have GPU?

Is it built on the Chrome devtools protocol/puppeteer?

browsergap5• 6 years ago

No but I could add gpus to the machine. Good idea to try I guess.

Yes it's built on top of chrome Dev tools.

londons_explore3• 6 years ago

When I tried something similar I found that Googles profile-based compilation seemed to really affect performance of their builds, and with my own build I couldn't seem to match their performance, presumably because I didn't have as good a profile, but maybe because they had some spiffy compiler optimizations they were keeping close to their chest.

Also, GPU is an economic requirement - it doesn't make a huge difference to user-percieved performance, but makes a big difference to CPU used, since all the render worker threads suddenly drop from 100% CPU to near zero... That lets you put more users on the same VM... There are some ideas I was experimenting with trying to do 'remote rendering' - ie rendering work is sent to a remote machine with a GPU. I got it working for basic image/text rendering, but not webgl/canvas/video encode/decode... In general, a single GPU can handle hundreds of browsing sessions, whereas a CPU can only handle tens of sessions, so costs can be cut quite a lot by decoupling them. That and one can get better bin-packing by decoupling...

londons_explore3• 6 years ago

I'm doing a similar project, and have a few ideas that might interest you - can you get in touch (contact details in my profile)?

browsergap5• 6 years ago

The Open source code here: https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserGap

Show HN: Spending GCloud for startups credits on a free demo

Related Stories