Not really seeing a material difference between this and just using one of the available machine learning AMI's on EC2. Relatively anticlimactic
Nvidia GPU Cloud
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#22Paperspace also announced NVidia Volta VMs available today. As well as a contest for 100 compute hours credit ;)
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Thanks for this, I had no idea it existed and it looks amazing! Definitely trying it out tonight.
Post your experience here afterwards.
I just tried it and am completely floored. It worked wonderfully. Just some expected mouse input lag. Otherwise smooth as butter.
I have gigabit fiber so that might help a little with the overall experience but I'd be willing to pay a good amount of money for this as a service.
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Ah didn't know that, thanks! Looking further though, I see Softlayer does offer GPU for bare metal provisioning [0]. But it is not available in Virtual machines. Also, even for the GPU offering, it doesn't mention the details at all, not even if it is OpenCL or CUDA. [0] https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/bare-metal-searc... EDIT - nevermind, was looking in the wrong place! Found this: https://www.ibm.com/cl…
Having had experience with SoftLayer in recent years (that is, currently still deal with them and have for years), I can’t emphasize enough that you should steer clear. Year after year support and just overall stability has fallen to shit after IBMs acquisition. I can’t wait to be free of it.
sorry you have had a bad experience. Do you mind sharing what could be improved? disclaimer: I am one of the core network engineers and my opinions expressed here are my own and not official statements
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#25Re: Nvidia GPU Cloud
#26Basically a set of fine-tuned virtual machine images for Amazon Cloud.
Yeah, I was hoping that this would be an nvidia managed cloud platform as a new competitor in the space. With only AWS, Azure, and Google there is definitely room for another deep learning cloud competitor. But this announcement makes sense in the context of the new AWS P3 instances, so there is definitely a partnership going on that nvidia wouldnt break from.
What about Paperspace?
(Really, I'm wondering: did you just overlook them or is there a reason they are not competitive with the other platforms?)
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having had experience with SoftLayer in recent years (that is, currently still deal with them and have for years), I can’t emphasize enough that you should steer clear. Year after year support and just overall stability has fallen to shit after IBMs acquisition. I can’t wait to be free of it.
sorry you have had a bad experience. Do you mind sharing what could be improved? disclaimer: I am one of the core network engineers and my opinions expressed here are my own and not official statements
When you say there’s going to be four minutes of network outage in a four hour window, I relay that to our clients. It seems to consistently push into 30 minutes. Just say 30 minutes up front and it’ll be daisy. Also, it seems like I have to pull out teeth when I have a VSI go down because of host (dom0) failure. When I call in, I literally have to argue with the support engineer that the machine is down so he doesn’t waste 30 minutes of everyone’s time to “debug” what I already know to be true (I.e. if I can’t trigger a force restart on the VSI from control or API, and the VSI is down, and “KVM” to it is down, just fucking trust me and escalate). Also, why the hell cant a ticket auto open for that, or even just a manual “open tickets to all accounts affected” button. There’s zero communication with customers, compare that to Google Cloud or the much smaller Linode. It’s really pathetic. My list of grievances can go on and on. My current one is “why did you all bother migrating us all to hardware supposedly capable of live migration, just to not use it and tell me the earlier migrated machines need to be migrated again because you all used me as a guinea pig before putting them on LTS machines!”
EDIT: also, since this is your domain, what exactly has been happening in lon/ams with networking? SoftLayer used to pride itself with its network, but it feels subpar at best now.
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#28But can we use it to play games? You know, for research..
There’s also GeForce now. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/ma... There’s a public beta for macs. It’s dope as fuck. Like smooth as the fucking butter. Integrates with steam and battle.net. So you can play your games. Free in beta. I’ve been telling everyone I know about it. I can play pubg on ultra settings. There’s an extremely occasional skip but playing natively would do that too. I know I…
Thanks for sharing! This is really cool and has a pretty broad spectrum of Games ranging from Minecraft to PUBG!
"What is it?":
> 1. WHAT IS THE GEFORCE NOW™ FOR MAC® FREE BETA? GeForce NOW for Mac beta is a new service from NVIDIA that connects you to a powerful GeForce GTX gaming PC in the cloud, turning your Mac into a powerful gaming rig. We’ve launched a free beta of this service. so you can try it out at no charge. The GeForce NOW beta app will require you to log in to Steam to install games included in our list of supported games. You must already own or purchase these games to play them.
Other interesting note: 10. HOW MANY GAMES CAN I INSTALL? Install as many of your games as you like. GeForce NOW game storage is unlimited.
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#29It's called "Nvidia GPU Cloud", but it's actually just a set of container images. Having ready-to-use, properly optimized TF images is convenient, but calling that "Nvidia GPU Cloud" is a little bit overdicked.
Welcome to the corporate world, where buzzwords are everything.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s also GeForce now. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/ma... There’s a public beta for macs. It’s dope as fuck. Like smooth as the fucking butter. Integrates with steam and battle.net. So you can play your games. Free in beta. I’ve been telling everyone I know about it. I can play pubg on ultra settings. There’s an extremely occasional skip but playing natively would do that too. I know I…
Thanks for sharing! This is really cool and has a pretty broad spectrum of Games ranging from Minecraft to PUBG! "What is it?": > 1. WHAT IS THE GEFORCE NOW™ FOR MAC® FREE BETA? GeForce NOW for Mac beta is a new service from NVIDIA that connects you to a powerful GeForce GTX gaming PC in the cloud, turning your Mac into a powerful gaming rig. We’ve launched a free beta of this service. so you can try it out at no cha…
You can play anything you own on steam r battle.net.