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  "id": 18474,
  "title": "AWS - usage of spot instances and persistence",
  "url": "/competitions/second-annual-data-science-bowl/discussion/18474",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-01-20T13:43:00.343Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>I would love to obtain best practices of running AWS spot instances for Kaggle Competitions. Let me know any tips in order to be up-and-running quicly again after one might get priced out of spot instances / instances get terminated. I had so far stored my data on a seperate EBS volume (probably good idea) but had not set my root device to persist (probably bad idea - as i have reinstall all packages again). </p>\n\n<p>I am using a G2x2 with SSD root device. Does one indeed prevent deletion of all packages and software (e.g. CUDA, etc.) if one simply makes the root device persistent? </p>\n\n<p>any help welcome! </p>",
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    {
      "id": "105144",
      "postDate": "01/20/2016 13:43:00",
      "content": "<p>I would love to obtain best practices of running AWS spot instances for Kaggle Competitions. Let me know any tips in order to be up-and-running quicly again after one might get priced out of spot instances / instances get terminated. I had so far stored my data on a seperate EBS volume (probably good idea) but had not set my root device to persist (probably bad idea - as i have reinstall all packages again). </p>\n\n<p>I am using a G2x2 with SSD root device. Does one indeed prevent deletion of all packages and software (e.g. CUDA, etc.) if one simply makes the root device persistent? </p>\n\n<p>any help welcome! </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I would love to obtain best practices of running AWS spot instances for Kaggle Competitions. Let me know any tips in order to be up-and-running quicly again after one might get priced out of spot instances / instances get terminated. I had so far stored my data on a seperate EBS volume (probably good idea) but had not set my root device to persist (probably bad idea - as i have reinstall all packages again). \r\n\r\nI am using a G2x2 with SSD root device. Does one indeed prevent deletion of all packages and software (e.g. CUDA, etc.) if one simply makes the root device persistent? \r\n\r\nany help welcome!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "105175",
      "postDate": "01/20/2016 17:21:48",
      "content": "<p>Tip on price!...If you set your region to Ireland vs US you get the best prices...G2x2 at a bid price of 0.2 will not get terminated for days in the Ireland region...the going rate on G2X8 is about 0.5, I have played with those training 4 models simultaneously on the 4 gpu's </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Tip on price!...If you set your region to Ireland vs US you get the best prices...G2x2 at a bid price of 0.2 will not get terminated for days in the Ireland region...the going rate on G2X8 is about 0.5, I have played with those training 4 models simultaneously on the 4 gpu's",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 105175,
      "author_name": "godaibo",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/20/2016 17:21:48",
      "content": "<p>Tip on price!...If you set your region to Ireland vs US you get the best prices...G2x2 at a bid price of 0.2 will not get terminated for days in the Ireland region...the going rate on G2X8 is about 0.5, I have played with those training 4 models simultaneously on the 4 gpu's </p>",
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    "105144": "I would love to obtain best practices of running AWS spot instances for Kaggle Competitions. Let me know any tips in order to be up-and-running quicly again after one might get priced out of spot instances / instances get terminated. I had so far stored my data on a seperate EBS volume (probably good idea) but had not set my root device to persist (probably bad idea - as i have reinstall all packages again). \r\n\r\nI am using a G2x2 with SSD root device. Does one indeed prevent deletion of all packages and software (e.g. CUDA, etc.) if one simply makes the root device persistent? \r\n\r\nany help welcome!",
    "105175": "Tip on price!...If you set your region to Ireland vs US you get the best prices...G2x2 at a bid price of 0.2 will not get terminated for days in the Ireland region...the going rate on G2X8 is about 0.5, I have played with those training 4 models simultaneously on the 4 gpu's"
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