Not much work was done this week, other than reaching out to the competitors for assistance in running and explaining their code. As other University courses had assignments due this week and time was spent working on them.
Our email was responded with recommending using a virtual machine with more resources as they claim their code takes 2 days to run using 256 GB of RAM and a CPU with more than 20 cores. Which does not make any sense to us, as there was a compilation error in running their code.
Also there is no way for us to gain access to a machine this powerful outside the US as most of the solutions that provided services close to this, required a US based credit card, which as international students from the Caribbean we do not have access to.
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