{
  "id": 47646,
  "title": "Cost Benchmark: How much did you spend for GPUs for this competition?",
  "url": "/competitions/tensorflow-speech-recognition-challenge/discussion/47646",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-01-17T09:18:06.813921500Z",
  "votes": 7,
  "comment_count": 6,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Wanted to benchmark cost w/ others willing to share...\nFor those of us using cloud GPUs, wondering how much you spent for this competition?\nMy total bill was </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>$251 on Google Cloud Platform</li>\n<li>$66 on FloydHub</li>\n<li>Total: $317</li>\n</ul>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "269773",
      "postDate": "01/17/2018 09:18:06",
      "content": "<p>Wanted to benchmark cost w/ others willing to share...\nFor those of us using cloud GPUs, wondering how much you spent for this competition?\nMy total bill was </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>$251 on Google Cloud Platform</li>\n<li>$66 on FloydHub</li>\n<li>Total: $317</li>\n</ul>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Wanted to benchmark cost w/ others willing to share...\nFor those of us using cloud GPUs, wondering how much you spent for this competition?\nMy total bill was \n\n - $251 on Google Cloud Platform\n - $66 on FloydHub\n - Total: $317",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "269779",
      "postDate": "01/17/2018 09:42:29",
      "content": "<p>Never tried FloydHub. How was it compared to Google Cloud?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Never tried FloydHub. How was it compared to Google Cloud?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "269787",
      "postDate": "01/17/2018 09:57:50",
      "content": "<p>Good question.</p>\n\n<p>FloydHub: Tesla K80 · 12 GB Memory costs $0.70 per hour for 10 hour bundle, but you can find more info <a href=\"https://www.floydhub.com/pricing\">here</a>. Requires very little setup, besides a data upload &amp; run command using command line.</p>\n\n<p>GCP:  Tesla K80 · 12 GB Memory, price ~ $0.44 per hour (excluding storage costs which are few dollars per month), requires more setup, but gives you control over your development and runtime environment. Note GCP charges per min which is more price effective than most cloud providers.</p>\n\n<p>I've stopped using Nvidia GPU Cloud as it uses AWS which I don't find is compelling from a pricing or specs perspective.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Good question.\n\nFloydHub: Tesla K80 · 12 GB Memory costs $0.70 per hour for 10 hour bundle, but you can find more info [here][1]. Requires very little setup, besides a data upload &amp; run command using command line.\n\nGCP:  Tesla K80 · 12 GB Memory, price ~ $0.44 per hour (excluding storage costs which are few dollars per month), requires more setup, but gives you control over your development and runtime environment. Note GCP charges per min which is more price effective than most cloud providers.\n\nI've stopped using Nvidia GPU Cloud as it uses AWS which I don't find is compelling from a pricing or specs perspective.\n\n  [1]: https://www.floydhub.com/pricing",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "270025",
      "postDate": "01/17/2018 17:01:11",
      "content": "<p>Wow.... thats some money there... I wonder if the cost of execution (across all teams) is higher than the total prize.... </p>\n\n<p>While money should not be the motivation for competitors, abuse shouldn't be either for sponsor :/</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Wow.... thats some money there... I wonder if the cost of execution (across all teams) is higher than the total prize.... \n\nWhile money should not be the motivation for competitors, abuse shouldn't be either for sponsor :/",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "270038",
      "postDate": "01/17/2018 17:17:07",
      "content": "<p>Borrowed a spare GPU from a coin miner. $0 + friendship</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Borrowed a spare GPU from a coin miner. $0 + friendship",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "270057",
      "postDate": "01/17/2018 17:44:24",
      "content": "<p>need to see my electric bill this month to figure out...</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "need to see my electric bill this month to figure out...",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "274250",
      "postDate": "01/26/2018 06:36:15",
      "content": "<p>Looks like you can get 12 hours of processing on a K80 for free via <a href=\"https://colab.research.google.com/notebook\">https://colab.research.google.com/notebook</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Looks like you can get 12 hours of processing on a K80 for free via https://colab.research.google.com/notebook",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 269779,
      "author_name": "antorsae",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/17/2018 09:42:29",
      "content": "<p>Never tried FloydHub. How was it compared to Google Cloud?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 269787,
          "author_name": "donigian",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "01/17/2018 09:57:50",
          "content": "<p>Good question.</p>\n\n<p>FloydHub: Tesla K80 · 12 GB Memory costs $0.70 per hour for 10 hour bundle, but you can find more info <a href=\"https://www.floydhub.com/pricing\">here</a>. Requires very little setup, besides a data upload &amp; run command using command line.</p>\n\n<p>GCP:  Tesla K80 · 12 GB Memory, price ~ $0.44 per hour (excluding storage costs which are few dollars per month), requires more setup, but gives you control over your development and runtime environment. Note GCP charges per min which is more price effective than most cloud providers.</p>\n\n<p>I've stopped using Nvidia GPU Cloud as it uses AWS which I don't find is compelling from a pricing or specs perspective.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 270025,
      "author_name": "carloshuertas",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/17/2018 17:01:11",
      "content": "<p>Wow.... thats some money there... I wonder if the cost of execution (across all teams) is higher than the total prize.... </p>\n\n<p>While money should not be the motivation for competitors, abuse shouldn't be either for sponsor :/</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 270038,
      "author_name": "atfisnotatf",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/17/2018 17:17:07",
      "content": "<p>Borrowed a spare GPU from a coin miner. $0 + friendship</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 270057,
      "author_name": "ryanzhang",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/17/2018 17:44:24",
      "content": "<p>need to see my electric bill this month to figure out...</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 274250,
      "author_name": "donigian",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/26/2018 06:36:15",
      "content": "<p>Looks like you can get 12 hours of processing on a K80 for free via <a href=\"https://colab.research.google.com/notebook\">https://colab.research.google.com/notebook</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
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    "269773": "Wanted to benchmark cost w/ others willing to share...\nFor those of us using cloud GPUs, wondering how much you spent for this competition?\nMy total bill was \n\n - $251 on Google Cloud Platform\n - $66 on FloydHub\n - Total: $317",
    "269779": "Never tried FloydHub. How was it compared to Google Cloud?",
    "269787": "Good question.\n\nFloydHub: Tesla K80 · 12 GB Memory costs $0.70 per hour for 10 hour bundle, but you can find more info [here][1]. Requires very little setup, besides a data upload &amp; run command using command line.\n\nGCP:  Tesla K80 · 12 GB Memory, price ~ $0.44 per hour (excluding storage costs which are few dollars per month), requires more setup, but gives you control over your development and runtime environment. Note GCP charges per min which is more price effective than most cloud providers.\n\nI've stopped using Nvidia GPU Cloud as it uses AWS which I don't find is compelling from a pricing or specs perspective.\n\n  [1]: https://www.floydhub.com/pricing",
    "270025": "Wow.... thats some money there... I wonder if the cost of execution (across all teams) is higher than the total prize.... \n\nWhile money should not be the motivation for competitors, abuse shouldn't be either for sponsor :/",
    "270038": "Borrowed a spare GPU from a coin miner. $0 + friendship",
    "270057": "need to see my electric bill this month to figure out...",
    "274250": "Looks like you can get 12 hours of processing on a K80 for free via https://colab.research.google.com/notebook"
  },
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}