{
  "id": 574224,
  "title": "[Newbie Question] Clarification on GPU Time Limit and Inference",
  "url": "/competitions/stanford-rna-3d-folding/discussion/574224",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-04-20T19:01:53.595966900Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 2,
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  "content": "<p>Hi everyone, I'm new to this competition and have a question about the GPU time constraint.</p>\n<p>The description says:</p>\n<p><code>There will be up to 40 sequences in the test set, all of them used for the private leaderboard.”\nAnd that the GPU time limit is 8 hours.</code></p>\n<p>I just want to clarify:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is the 8-hour GPU limit only for inference, or does it also include any training or test-time fine-tuning we do?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>If it’s just for inference, does that mean we have around 8 hours / 40 sequences ≈ 12 minutes per sequence as a rough limit?</p>\n<p>Appreciate any help — just trying to make sure I stay within the rules!</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "3183350",
      "postDate": "04/20/2025 19:01:53",
      "content": "<p>Hi everyone, I'm new to this competition and have a question about the GPU time constraint.</p>\n<p>The description says:</p>\n<p><code>There will be up to 40 sequences in the test set, all of them used for the private leaderboard.”\nAnd that the GPU time limit is 8 hours.</code></p>\n<p>I just want to clarify:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is the 8-hour GPU limit only for inference, or does it also include any training or test-time fine-tuning we do?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>If it’s just for inference, does that mean we have around 8 hours / 40 sequences ≈ 12 minutes per sequence as a rough limit?</p>\n<p>Appreciate any help — just trying to make sure I stay within the rules!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi everyone, I'm new to this competition and have a question about the GPU time constraint.\n\nThe description says:\n\n`There will be up to 40 sequences in the test set, all of them used for the private leaderboard.”\nAnd that the GPU time limit is 8 hours.`\n\nI just want to clarify:\n\n-  Is the 8-hour GPU limit only for inference, or does it also include any training or test-time fine-tuning we do?\n\nIf it’s just for inference, does that mean we have around 8 hours / 40 sequences ≈ 12 minutes per sequence as a rough limit?\n\n\nAppreciate any help — just trying to make sure I stay within the rules!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3183381",
      "postDate": "04/20/2025 19:42:52",
      "content": "<p>When you submit your notebook for scoring, it should complete its execution and save the prediction in a CSV file within the allotted time limit(8 hours) </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "When you submit your notebook for scoring, it should complete its execution and save the prediction in a CSV file within the allotted time limit(8 hours)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3183659",
      "postDate": "04/21/2025 05:40:39",
      "content": "<p>Thank you.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3183381,
      "author_name": "arunodhayan",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/20/2025 19:42:52",
      "content": "<p>When you submit your notebook for scoring, it should complete its execution and save the prediction in a CSV file within the allotted time limit(8 hours) </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3183659,
          "author_name": "hvanphucs112",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/21/2025 05:40:39",
          "content": "<p>Thank you.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "3183350": "Hi everyone, I'm new to this competition and have a question about the GPU time constraint.\n\nThe description says:\n\n`There will be up to 40 sequences in the test set, all of them used for the private leaderboard.”\nAnd that the GPU time limit is 8 hours.`\n\nI just want to clarify:\n\n-  Is the 8-hour GPU limit only for inference, or does it also include any training or test-time fine-tuning we do?\n\nIf it’s just for inference, does that mean we have around 8 hours / 40 sequences ≈ 12 minutes per sequence as a rough limit?\n\n\nAppreciate any help — just trying to make sure I stay within the rules!",
    "3183381": "When you submit your notebook for scoring, it should complete its execution and save the prediction in a CSV file within the allotted time limit(8 hours)",
    "3183659": "Thank you."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}