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  "id": 561089,
  "title": "more GPU hours ",
  "url": "/competitions/czii-cryo-et-object-identification/discussion/561089",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-02-04T05:04:27.881915100Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 4,
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  "content": "<p>Hi everyone,</p>\n<p>I have a limit of 5 submissions per day, but each submission consumes my weekly 30 GPU hours quota. Given this limitation, are there any ways to increase GPU hours, for the time left before the competition ends? </p>",
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    {
      "id": "3114743",
      "postDate": "02/04/2025 05:04:27",
      "content": "<p>Hi everyone,</p>\n<p>I have a limit of 5 submissions per day, but each submission consumes my weekly 30 GPU hours quota. Given this limitation, are there any ways to increase GPU hours, for the time left before the competition ends? </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi everyone,\n\nI have a limit of 5 submissions per day, but each submission consumes my weekly 30 GPU hours quota. Given this limitation, are there any ways to increase GPU hours, for the time left before the competition ends?",
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    {
      "id": "3114784",
      "postDate": "02/04/2025 05:58:27",
      "content": "<p>Can you elaborate on how it consumes your 30 hours?  If you are training in your kaggle environment then maybe try training your model elsewhere like on Google colab or some VM with the proper GPU and then only use kaggle for submissions and inference.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Can you elaborate on how it consumes your 30 hours?  If you are training in your kaggle environment then maybe try training your model elsewhere like on Google colab or some VM with the proper GPU and then only use kaggle for submissions and inference.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3114805",
      "postDate": "02/04/2025 06:40:54",
      "content": "<p>i maxed out my 30 hour GPU, and I can't submit more predictions because it requires the GPU to run the submit</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "i maxed out my 30 hour GPU, and I can't submit more predictions because it requires the GPU to run the submit",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3115243",
      "postDate": "02/04/2025 15:55:43",
      "content": "<p>Ah, I am not sure then unfortunately.  I use around 6 minutes of GPU when I submit before submitting to the competition.  I do not believe Kaggle has a way of getting extra GPU hours.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Ah, I am not sure then unfortunately.  I use around 6 minutes of GPU when I submit before submitting to the competition.  I do not believe Kaggle has a way of getting extra GPU hours.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3115386",
      "postDate": "02/04/2025 19:47:00",
      "content": "<p>I think you may have a notebook running in the background, check the 'View Active Events' tab to see this. You can also cancel any notebooks running that you're not utilising. </p>\n<p>Best of luck </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I think you may have a notebook running in the background, check the 'View Active Events' tab to see this. You can also cancel any notebooks running that you're not utilising. \n\nBest of luck",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3114784,
      "author_name": "connorjd",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/04/2025 05:58:27",
      "content": "<p>Can you elaborate on how it consumes your 30 hours?  If you are training in your kaggle environment then maybe try training your model elsewhere like on Google colab or some VM with the proper GPU and then only use kaggle for submissions and inference.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3114805,
          "author_name": "thisarmin",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "02/04/2025 06:40:54",
          "content": "<p>i maxed out my 30 hour GPU, and I can't submit more predictions because it requires the GPU to run the submit</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 3115243,
              "author_name": "connorjd",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "02/04/2025 15:55:43",
              "content": "<p>Ah, I am not sure then unfortunately.  I use around 6 minutes of GPU when I submit before submitting to the competition.  I do not believe Kaggle has a way of getting extra GPU hours.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 3115386,
      "author_name": "cuboidmaster",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/04/2025 19:47:00",
      "content": "<p>I think you may have a notebook running in the background, check the 'View Active Events' tab to see this. You can also cancel any notebooks running that you're not utilising. </p>\n<p>Best of luck </p>",
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    "3114743": "Hi everyone,\n\nI have a limit of 5 submissions per day, but each submission consumes my weekly 30 GPU hours quota. Given this limitation, are there any ways to increase GPU hours, for the time left before the competition ends?",
    "3114784": "Can you elaborate on how it consumes your 30 hours?  If you are training in your kaggle environment then maybe try training your model elsewhere like on Google colab or some VM with the proper GPU and then only use kaggle for submissions and inference.",
    "3114805": "i maxed out my 30 hour GPU, and I can't submit more predictions because it requires the GPU to run the submit",
    "3115243": "Ah, I am not sure then unfortunately.  I use around 6 minutes of GPU when I submit before submitting to the competition.  I do not believe Kaggle has a way of getting extra GPU hours.",
    "3115386": "I think you may have a notebook running in the background, check the 'View Active Events' tab to see this. You can also cancel any notebooks running that you're not utilising. \n\nBest of luck"
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