Comment Re:old schoolers who haven't heard... (Score 1) 245
This does sound like the perfect use-case for the cloud (of the 'rent a VM' type of cloud, such as AWS or Azure) - both for short term access to vastly more CPU, RAM or storage than you would reasonably want to be sharing a room with and also for the huge network bandwidth to the rest of the internet typically available from a cloud datacentre (AWS as an example capping out at 224GB RAM or 42TB or local storage).
However this is E.S.R. we are talking about so, aside from the possible issues with whether any of the cloud providers are compatible with his larger philsophical aims, who knows what other interesting ideas he might come up with given access to much more powerful personal computer hardware rather than having his creativity shackled by the limitations of his current systems.