The data in this competition is huge and DL training time is in days. I think if we get free Google cloud GPU access like in \"Passenger Screening Algorithm Challenge\" will be great boost.
", "messages": [ { "id": "223177", "postDate": "09/21/2017 10:54:57", "content": "The data in this competition is huge and DL training time is in days. I think if we get free Google cloud GPU access like in \"Passenger Screening Algorithm Challenge\" will be great boost.
", "rawMarkdown": "The data in this competition is huge and DL training time is in days. I think if we get free Google cloud GPU access like in \"Passenger Screening Algorithm Challenge\" will be great boost.", "votes": null }, { "id": "223180", "postDate": "09/21/2017 11:01:29", "content": "Anyone who signs up for Google Cloud gets $300 free credit.
", "rawMarkdown": "Anyone who signs up for Google Cloud gets $300 free credit.", "votes": null }, { "id": "223235", "postDate": "09/21/2017 14:37:20", "content": "Hi Deepak - We don't have plans to provide credits specifically for this challenge.
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi Deepak - We don't have plans to provide credits specifically for this challenge.", "votes": null }, { "id": "223527", "postDate": "09/22/2017 13:44:28", "content": "Sorry for the silly question. Which kind of machine we can get with this amount of credit?
", "rawMarkdown": "Sorry for the silly question. Which kind of machine we can get with this amount of credit?", "votes": null }, { "id": "223559", "postDate": "09/22/2017 15:13:25", "content": "Hi Aloisio - It depends on your exact configuration. The P100 card is $2.30 per hour. You can learn more here.
\n\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing
\n\nhttps://cloud.google.com/products/calculator
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi Aloisio - It depends on your exact configuration. The P100 card is $2.30 per hour. You can learn more here. \n\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing\n\nhttps://cloud.google.com/products/calculator", "votes": null }, { "id": "223568", "postDate": "09/22/2017 15:55:17", "content": "Note that you also pay for storage using this credit. I think it's only $0.02/GB per month, but given the size of this competition's data you don't want to grow your storage bucket too fast. :-D
", "rawMarkdown": "Note that you also pay for storage using this credit. I think it's only $0.02/GB per month, but given the size of this competition's data you don't want to grow your storage bucket too fast. :-D", "votes": null }, { "id": "223756", "postDate": "09/23/2017 11:33:27", "content": "Correct me if I'm wrong, I think we can't use the free credits for GPU machine. We have to pay it out of our own pocket. If you want to do more deep learning besides this competition, building a desktop with one GTX 1080Ti is around 2000 dollars.
", "rawMarkdown": "Correct me if I'm wrong, I think we can't use the free credits for GPU machine. We have to pay it out of our own pocket. If you want to do more deep learning besides this competition, building a desktop with one GTX 1080Ti is around 2000 dollars.", "votes": null }, { "id": "223765", "postDate": "09/23/2017 11:58:43", "content": "It's possible they changed it but when I used Google Cloud ML a few months ago using the free credit, GPU usage was included. Note that this is the \"ML Engine\" service, which requires you to run your models using TensorFlow. (I haven't used other parts of Google Cloud yet.)
", "rawMarkdown": "It's possible they changed it but when I used Google Cloud ML a few months ago using the free credit, GPU usage was included. Note that this is the \"ML Engine\" service, which requires you to run your models using TensorFlow. (I haven't used other parts of Google Cloud yet.)", "votes": null }, { "id": "224714", "postDate": "09/27/2017 12:44:58", "content": "Hi,\nCheckout Floyd, FloydHub is a Platform-as-a-Service for training and deploying your deep learning models in the cloud.
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi,\nCheckout [Floyd][1], FloydHub is a Platform-as-a-Service for training and deploying your deep learning models in the cloud.\n\n\n [1]: https://www.floydhub.com/", "votes": null }, { "id": "226811", "postDate": "10/03/2017 05:09:42", "content": "I used Google Cloud Compute Engine and GPU P100 by $300 free credit
\nWhen using GPU you need to agree on payment, but $300 free credit is still active
\nSo you can use GPU machine for free trial
\nPlease be careful of overuse
Anyone who signs up for Google Cloud gets $300 free credit.
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 223527, "author_name": "aloisiodn", "author_url": "", "post_date": "09/22/2017 13:44:28", "content": "Sorry for the silly question. Which kind of machine we can get with this amount of credit?
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 223559, "author_name": "inversion", "author_url": "", "post_date": "09/22/2017 15:13:25", "content": "Hi Aloisio - It depends on your exact configuration. The P100 card is $2.30 per hour. You can learn more here.
\n\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing
\n\nhttps://cloud.google.com/products/calculator
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 223568, "author_name": "humananalog", "author_url": "", "post_date": "09/22/2017 15:55:17", "content": "Note that you also pay for storage using this credit. I think it's only $0.02/GB per month, but given the size of this competition's data you don't want to grow your storage bucket too fast. :-D
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 223235, "author_name": "inversion", "author_url": "", "post_date": "09/21/2017 14:37:20", "content": "Hi Deepak - We don't have plans to provide credits specifically for this challenge.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 223756, "author_name": "junhongxu", "author_url": "", "post_date": "09/23/2017 11:33:27", "content": "Correct me if I'm wrong, I think we can't use the free credits for GPU machine. We have to pay it out of our own pocket. If you want to do more deep learning besides this competition, building a desktop with one GTX 1080Ti is around 2000 dollars.
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 223765, "author_name": "humananalog", "author_url": "", "post_date": "09/23/2017 11:58:43", "content": "It's possible they changed it but when I used Google Cloud ML a few months ago using the free credit, GPU usage was included. Note that this is the \"ML Engine\" service, which requires you to run your models using TensorFlow. (I haven't used other parts of Google Cloud yet.)
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 226811, "author_name": "fujisan", "author_url": "", "post_date": "10/03/2017 05:09:42", "content": "I used Google Cloud Compute Engine and GPU P100 by $300 free credit
\nWhen using GPU you need to agree on payment, but $300 free credit is still active
\nSo you can use GPU machine for free trial
\nPlease be careful of overuse
Hi,\nCheckout Floyd, FloydHub is a Platform-as-a-Service for training and deploying your deep learning models in the cloud.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "223177": "The data in this competition is huge and DL training time is in days. I think if we get free Google cloud GPU access like in \"Passenger Screening Algorithm Challenge\" will be great boost.", "223180": "Anyone who signs up for Google Cloud gets $300 free credit.", "223235": "Hi Deepak - We don't have plans to provide credits specifically for this challenge.", "223527": "Sorry for the silly question. Which kind of machine we can get with this amount of credit?", "223559": "Hi Aloisio - It depends on your exact configuration. The P100 card is $2.30 per hour. You can learn more here. \n\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing\n\nhttps://cloud.google.com/products/calculator", "223568": "Note that you also pay for storage using this credit. I think it's only $0.02/GB per month, but given the size of this competition's data you don't want to grow your storage bucket too fast. :-D", "223756": "Correct me if I'm wrong, I think we can't use the free credits for GPU machine. We have to pay it out of our own pocket. If you want to do more deep learning besides this competition, building a desktop with one GTX 1080Ti is around 2000 dollars.", "223765": "It's possible they changed it but when I used Google Cloud ML a few months ago using the free credit, GPU usage was included. Note that this is the \"ML Engine\" service, which requires you to run your models using TensorFlow. (I haven't used other parts of Google Cloud yet.)", "224714": "Hi,\nCheckout [Floyd][1], FloydHub is a Platform-as-a-Service for training and deploying your deep learning models in the cloud.\n\n\n [1]: https://www.floydhub.com/", "226811": "I used Google Cloud Compute Engine and GPU P100 by $300 free credit \nWhen using GPU you need to agree on payment, but $300 free credit is still active \nSo you can use GPU machine for free trial \nPlease be careful of overuse" }, "source": "meta" }