Google Provides Free Nvidia K80 GPUs for Anyone to Train Deep Learning Models
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Re: Google Provides Free Nvidia K80 GPUs for Anyone to Train Deep Learning Models
#2This Free Nvidia GPUs that you mention... is that what Colaboratory is?
Re: Google Provides Free Nvidia K80 GPUs for Anyone to Train Deep Learning Models
#3Providing a tl;dr: Google provides a jupyter / ipython research environment with some amount of integration to their existing services. This environment they call "Colaboratory". They have now started providing free access to GPU resources from within this environment. Details for using with tensorflow here: https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=/v2/extern...
Re: Google Provides Free Nvidia K80 GPUs for Anyone to Train Deep Learning Models
#4how can they make it free? Would this not be anti-competitive to smaller companies charging money for it?
Re: Google Provides Free Nvidia K80 GPUs for Anyone to Train Deep Learning Models
#5how can they make it free? Would this not be anti-competitive to smaller companies charging money for it?
At current prices, the VM + GPU is $0.57/hr, which doesn’t break Google’s bank and is absurdly cheap for usability testing for a new product.
Re: Google Provides Free Nvidia K80 GPUs for Anyone to Train Deep Learning Models
#6how can they make it free? Would this not be anti-competitive to smaller companies charging money for it?
It's previous gen hardware, so presumably the only cost to google is energy usage and similar. They probably use the newer p100 and v100 cards internally which are significantly faster for deep learning.
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#8Deepfakes?
Re: Google Provides Free Nvidia K80 GPUs for Anyone to Train Deep Learning Models
#9It's also nice that you can pip install basically any library, I guess, from within the notebook itself.
I just copy and pasted a keras MNIST demo and it seemed to work like a charm.
https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=1tD_viugd-...
(think you need a google account, fwiw)
Re: Google Provides Free Nvidia K80 GPUs for Anyone to Train Deep Learning Models
#10how can they make it free? Would this not be anti-competitive to smaller companies charging money for it?
It's previous gen hardware, so presumably the only cost to google is energy usage and similar. They probably use the newer p100 and v100 cards internally which are significantly faster for deep learning.
It does not seem worthless: https://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Tesla-GDDR5-Cores-Graphic/dp/B... . It must have some depreciation cost.