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No spot instances?
I kept it the analysis to GCE only for simiplicity. (both because the costs of spot instances are highly variable, and costs are not prorated on Amazon meaning you have to pay for the full hour; an additional concern if you just want to run a small ad-hoc training)
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/tensorflow-optimiz...
Shoutout for Hetzner's 99 euro/month server with a GTX 1080, much better than the pseudo-K80s that Google Cloud provides for $520/month. The Google K80s are half or quarter the speed of a real K80, part of the reason they show so badly in the comparison. https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu?co...
Wish HN had a 'save' feature so I can remember this comment when I need a GPU box.
FYI, y'all: cloud "cores" are actually hyperthreads. Cloud GPUs are single dies on multi-die card. If you use GPUs 24x7, just buy a few 1080 Ti cards and forego the cloud entirely. If you must use TF in cloud with CPU, compile it yourself with AVX2 and FMA support. Stock TF is compiled for the lowest common denominator.
This is very important if you're running any cpu intensive workload at scale. We had custom compiled x264 then custom compiled that into ffmpeg to get everything out of our CPUs for an encoding cluster. AMD cpus seem to really shine here. You'd be surprised the difference it makes. It was one of the reasons I liked Gentoo, emerge would always build from source for your target CPU flags, instead of using the package m…
Can you tell me more about this? I wanted to switch to Ryzen architecture with my video transcoding project that handles large volume, but because we lean heavily on x264/ffmpeg, it didn't seem like a good idea given the AVX issues, keeping me on i7-based architecture. (Previous comments of mine will show the history of this particular thread.)
Would love to hear it here or via my throwaway: mike.anon@hotmail.com. Thank you so much.
Paperspace has dedicated GPU instances for $0.40/hr, I'll have to compare with Hetzner...
Shoutout for Hetzner's 99 euro/month server with a GTX 1080, much better than the pseudo-K80s that Google Cloud provides for $520/month. The Google K80s are half or quarter the speed of a real K80, part of the reason they show so badly in the comparison. https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu?co...
My lord. HPC resources are incredibly affordable. Hetnzer and some of the other dedicated server companies in Europe/Canada have some amazing deals (we've used OVH in the past with great success, and right now we use Paperspace for CPU intensive stuff we want to share expensive licensing on, like Visual3D).
Shoutout for Hetzner's 99 euro/month server with a GTX 1080, much better than the pseudo-K80s that Google Cloud provides for $520/month. The Google K80s are half or quarter the speed of a real K80, part of the reason they show so badly in the comparison. https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu?co...
GTX 1080 GPU, i7-6700 Skylake, 64 GB DDR4 RAM, 2x500 GB 6 Gb/s SSDs for 99EUR/month with a one-time 99EUR setup fee. My lord. HPC resources are incredibly affordable. Hetnzer and some of the other dedicated server companies in Europe/Canada have some amazing deals (we've used OVH in the past with great success, and right now we use Paperspace for CPU intensive stuff we want to share expensive licensing on, like Visua…
It could go a lot lower. Hetzner's profit margin on renting a server like this for 99€/month is formidable.
Shoutout for Hetzner's 99 euro/month server with a GTX 1080, much better than the pseudo-K80s that Google Cloud provides for $520/month. The Google K80s are half or quarter the speed of a real K80, part of the reason they show so badly in the comparison. https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu?co...
Wish HN had a 'save' feature so I can remember this comment when I need a GPU box.
Shoutout for Hetzner's 99 euro/month server with a GTX 1080, much better than the pseudo-K80s that Google Cloud provides for $520/month. The Google K80s are half or quarter the speed of a real K80, part of the reason they show so badly in the comparison. https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu?co...
Wish HN had a 'save' feature so I can remember this comment when I need a GPU box.