Needing a more powerful workstation the fastest option is to fire up a NVv4 GPU powered compute instance.
Problem is I struggle to understand what kind of costs I will face in using it.
NV16as v4 16core 56 GiBRAM 352 GiB temporary storage 1/2 MI25 (8GB VRAM) GPU costs €0,9825/h for hourly usage on West EU area.
Wondering if I need to pay something else for these other topics
1) I will need to use Windows 10 Pro due the kind of sw will use, and as far I understand I need "an eligible Windows 10 licence with multi-tenant hosting rights". I have a Microsoft 365 Business Plus account
2) will connect remotelly using NoMachine since this is the only remote dektop sw I use, good enough for interactive graphics
3) will install an Autodesk sw needing about 4GB of data to download and install
4) will run compute CPU-heavy simulation enduring 6h on my 6c12t machine, so I expect about 2h on a 16c machine. This time can increase substantially depending on the sim setup, so maybe will need to switch up to the 32c instance.
5) this sim run will be unattended and will generate about 1GB of image sequence every time. Didn't need fast disk on this
6) after the compute will transfer back this images on my local PC/cloud drive using FPT or equivalent, possibily automating this process
7) after this last transfer of the results will need to receive an alert so I can decide to fire up a different sim with different parameters, or shut down the machine.
8) in case I shut down the VM will need to save the image somewhere so that when I need it back I can reload it on the VM and find again my setup

