google colab compression testing

[Shelwien]

Doesn't require registration or anything.
Just open the site, click "new python3 notebook", paste this script, press Ctrl-Enter, wait.

!apt install wine-stable
!wget http://www.byronknoll.com/cmix-v18-windows.zip
!unzip cmix-v18-windows.zip
!wine cmix/cmix.exe -c cmix/README 1
!ls -al 1

[Gonzalo]

Soooo cool

What's the catch? Since when is google letting us use their computers for free?

[Shelwien]

I guess they've suddenly got lots of otherwise unusable intel servers with too many spectre exploits.
Intel provides even better servers but without wine: https://software.intel.com/en-us/devcloud
Microsoft: https://notebooks.azure.com/
Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/notebooks
And I'm sure there're others.

processor: 1
vendor_id: GenuineIntel
cpu family: 6
model: 79
model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.20GHz
stepping: 0
microcode: 0x1
cpu MHz: 2200.000
cache size: 56320 KB
physical id: 0
siblings: 2
core id: 0
cpu cores: 1
apicid: 1
initial apicid: 1
fpu: yes
fpu_exception: yes
cpuid level: 13
wp: yes
flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch invpcid_single ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt arat md_clear arch_capabilities
bugs: cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs
bogomips: 4400.00