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Yes, you do. I went through this exact process in Fall 2021. I invite you to attempt to set up a personal GCP account for hobby use in the current GPU shortage, and share your experience.
OK, I just did this and it was trivial. Nothing extra, just used my normal hobby account. Please don't promote FUD.
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Yes, you do. I went through this exact process in Fall 2021. I invite you to attempt to set up a personal GCP account for hobby use in the current GPU shortage, and share your experience.
They don’t give the option of paying more? Or direct you to their business/enterprise team if you really want it?
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OK, I just did this and it was trivial. Nothing extra, just used my normal hobby account. Please don't promote FUD.
Why are you so eager to dismiss this as FUD? Are you a google employee? Here are the screenshots of the response I received. https://imgur.com/a/K66bX6W
So, you're right. I started wiht a quota of 1 gpu and can make an instance, but if I request more quota it's immediately turned down (no human involved, afaict). It just says to contact your sales rep. I wasn't aware (wasn't the case when I worked there) they autoreject GPU quota increases.
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Why are you so eager to dismiss this as FUD? Are you a google employee? Here are the screenshots of the response I received. https://imgur.com/a/K66bX6W
I was a google employee. So, you're right. I started wiht a quota of 1 gpu and can make an instance, but if I request more quota it's immediately turned down (no human involved, afaict). It just says to contact your sales rep. I wasn't aware (wasn't the case when I worked there) they autoreject GPU quota increases.
Be less quick to "fact check" anything that disagrees with the conventional wisdom.
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They don’t give the option of paying more? Or direct you to their business/enterprise team if you really want it?
No, it was extremely bizarre. They gave the option of escalating to sales, which I did, but all they did was deny my use case again for a lack of business justification. I think they're trying to prevent people from cryptomining, so they're just blanket denying access for small GPU quotas.
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I was a google employee. So, you're right. I started wiht a quota of 1 gpu and can make an instance, but if I request more quota it's immediately turned down (no human involved, afaict). It just says to contact your sales rep. I wasn't aware (wasn't the case when I worked there) they autoreject GPU quota increases.
If I could offer a word of advice: Be less quick to "fact check" anything that disagrees with the conventional wisdom.
Anyway, I checked and AWS does the same thing now, too. In fact, AWS took 12 hours to respond (rather than decline immediately), and then said they'd think about it, without a real no.
I checked in on this and they are new controls (new since I last evaluated the cloud using a hobby account) due to miners. ANd the message makes it clear- if you want to proceed, talk to a human. I don't like that but it's the same way it works for my work account.
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If I could offer a word of advice: Be less quick to "fact check" anything that disagrees with the conventional wisdom.
Uh, OK thanks? Anyway, I checked and AWS does the same thing now, too. In fact, AWS took 12 hours to respond (rather than decline immediately), and then said they'd think about it, without a real no. I checked in on this and they are new controls (new since I last evaluated the cloud using a hobby account) due to miners. ANd the message makes it clear- if you want to proceed, talk to a human. I don't like that but it…