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Introducing Amazon EC2 P3 Instances

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Re: Introducing Amazon EC2 P3 Instances

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Post by jnbiche »

DTE wrote: post #52

Hi guys, Dillon here from Paperspace ( https://www.paperspace.com ). We are a cloud that specializes in GPU infrastructure and software. We launched V100 instances a few days ago in our NY and CA regions and its much less expensive than AWS. Think of us as the DigitalOcean for GPUs with a simple, transparent pricing and effortless setup & configuration: AWS: $3.06/hr V100* Paperspace: $2.30 /hr or $980/month for dedi…

DigitalOcean for GPUs, awesome! For someone wanting to play around learning more about machine learning, would one of your Standard GPU units be ideal? If so, which one would you recommend? (Or do you think I'd need a dedicated GPU unit?)

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Post by DTE »

jnbiche wrote: post #61
DTE wrote: post #52

Hi guys, Dillon here from Paperspace ( https://www.paperspace.com ). We are a cloud that specializes in GPU infrastructure and software. We launched V100 instances a few days ago in our NY and CA regions and its much less expensive than AWS. Think of us as the DigitalOcean for GPUs with a simple, transparent pricing and effortless setup & configuration: AWS: $3.06/hr V100* Paperspace: $2.30 /hr or $980/month for dedi…

DigitalOcean for GPUs, awesome! For someone wanting to play around learning more about machine learning, would one of your Standard GPU units be ideal? If so, which one would you recommend? (Or do you think I'd need a dedicated GPU unit?)

For ML/deep learning tasks you should definitely use a dedicated GPU. I would recommend our GPU+ (NVIDIA Quadro M4000/P4000) which has 8GB of VRAM and 1664 CUDA cores.

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Post by STRML »

plantain wrote: post #3

But where are the C5 instances? It's been 11 months since Amazon announced Skylake C5's and we're still waiting! https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/coming-so...

Waiting for them as well. Most of all, we really need fast-CPU instances with the ENA, not the Intel NIC.

Re: Introducing Amazon EC2 P3 Instances

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Post by 0xJRS »

mamon wrote: post #60
mv4 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using the P100 on Softlayer and was impressed. Looks like V100 may be 2..3x faster on some tasks, will be interesting to test it. P.S. with that memory speed, it can probably run 300..400MH/s on ETH.

Genuinely curious: Given that Softlayer bare metal server prices start at 700$ per month is there even remote chance of this actually being profitable?

Adjust for power https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/eth?HashingP...

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Post by dexterdog »

moconnor wrote: post #5

An exaflop of mixed-precision compute for $250M over 3 years. That’s ballpark what the HPC community is paying for their exaflop-class machines. You’d still build your own for that money, I think, but it’s an interesting datapoint.

It wouldn't be $250K over 3 years. It would be $250K up-front to get the lowest current pricing.

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Post by dexterdog »

laumars wrote: post #11
dx034 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How long if you build it your own incl electricity prices? If margins are similar to other EC2 instances, you'd probably break-even after 6 months or so. Which makes EC2 uneconomical for any lab/company that can utilise the cluster 24/7. Still nice if you quickly need to get some model results though.

Amazon prices are for the pay as you go model. You can shave a significant amount off the price if you know you're going to be running them for 12 months.

And even less if it's 36 months.

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Post by rsynnott »

science404 wrote: post #17

Why Ireland and not the UK? I can imagine a lot of startups/banks in London could use this... Brexit fears?

Ireland is one of the older and larger regions, and generally gets new stuff at the same time as Virginia or very shortly afterwards. London and Frankfurt tend to be delayed a bit. See https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio...

Re: Introducing Amazon EC2 P3 Instances

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Post by Veratyr »

DTE wrote: post #52

Hi guys, Dillon here from Paperspace ( https://www.paperspace.com ). We are a cloud that specializes in GPU infrastructure and software. We launched V100 instances a few days ago in our NY and CA regions and its much less expensive than AWS. Think of us as the DigitalOcean for GPUs with a simple, transparent pricing and effortless setup & configuration: AWS: $3.06/hr V100* Paperspace: $2.30 /hr or $980/month for dedi…

Your pricing page notably omits transfer pricing. Do you have free bandwidth between yourself and AWS/GCP/Azure or do you peer at any major exchanges?

Getting the data into and out of compute services is the most difficult part financially, at least in my experience.

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Post by mv4 »

mamon wrote: post #60
mv4 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using the P100 on Softlayer and was impressed. Looks like V100 may be 2..3x faster on some tasks, will be interesting to test it. P.S. with that memory speed, it can probably run 300..400MH/s on ETH.

Genuinely curious: Given that Softlayer bare metal server prices start at 700$ per month is there even remote chance of this actually being profitable?

Nope, that would be hugely unprofitable. To give you an idea:

The P100 instances on Softlayer would cost around $2,000/mo, and would generate approximately $170/mo in ETH when fully optimized. One could probably build a DIY rig with the same hashing power for less than 2k total.

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