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Re: Colab Pro

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Post by LegitShady »

fulafel wrote: post #2

This seems to be a hosted Jupyter service, right mybinder, is that right?

Google Colab is a hosted jupyter notebooks service and is free. It includes the use of a Tesla k80. Runtimes reset after 12 hours

This is the pro/paid offering with fewer limitations and better resources.

Re: Colab Pro

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Post by minimaxir »

A preemptible P100 + VM on Google Compute Engine is about ~$0.45/hr, so to exceed that value with Colaboratory Pro (ignoring conveience factors) you'd need to train for more than 22 hours in a month. Which, for deep learning, is not too unreasonable.

Reading between the lines of both the signup page and up-to-date FAQ, it seems like the free TPU in Colab notebooks will be depreciated, which isn't too surprising.

Re: Colab Pro

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Post by freediver »

Good idea, but it's the first premium product that I've seen where the pitch is 'you may get certain features if you subscribe'. In another words there is no guarantee and a premium subscriber may still end up with same GPU as a free user. You may end up with a high-end V100 (not available to free) might be a better pitch.

Re: Colab Pro

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Post by iddan »

Colab is the best notebook I've ever used. It is a real game-changer and I can totally understand why people who use daily would pay for it.

Re: Colab Pro

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Post by ampdepolymerase »

minimaxir wrote: post #4

A preemptible P100 + VM on Google Compute Engine is about ~$0.45/hr, so to exceed that value with Colaboratory Pro (ignoring conveience factors) you'd need to train for more than 22 hours in a month. Which, for deep learning, is not too unreasonable. Reading between the lines of both the signup page and up-to-date FAQ, it seems like the free TPU in Colab notebooks will be depreciated, which isn't too surprising.

To clarify, does that mean you can continuously train a model for e.g. hundred of hours or are you still limited by the 24 hours notebook limit?

Re: Colab Pro

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Post by bitxbit »

iddan wrote: post #6

Colab is the best notebook I've ever used. It is a real game-changer and I can totally understand why people who use daily would pay for it.

We should really thank Mathematica for the notebook format.
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