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Is running AlphaGo really that expensive? I get that training deep learning systems is very computationally expensive, but my understanding is that running them
by malanj 11y ago
Is running AlphaGo really that expensive? I get that training deep learning systems is very computationally expensive, but my understanding is that running them is orders of magnitude cheaper.
edit: table showing gains as CPUs are added - https://i.imgur.com/xxdWUtV.png https://i.imgur.com/xxdWUtV.png
- joosters 11y agoIt's a huge cluster of machines.
- enneff 11y agoGot any numbers?
- tim333 11y agoThe Economist says "The version playing against Mr Lee uses 1,920 standard processor chips and 280 special ones developed originally to produce graphics for video games"
- eru 11y agoSo, that's actually not very expensive to rent for the duration of five games.
- Matt3o12_ 11y agoI don't know how long a game takes but I don't think google could afford letting anybody play, as stated in the original post.
- taneq 11y agoCharge $1000 per game and pay out $10,000 if the human wins. Could be a nice earner. ;)
- Splines 11y agoI'll pay for two simultaneous sessions of AlphaGo please :). I'll even let it go first in one of them!
- ProblemFactory 11y agoClever, but they could easily detect this on their servers.
- tim333 11y agoIt would be nice if they preserve a snap shot of Alphago as it was a the start of the Sedol games as a historic thing. Then if they open source it people could go play it too. They have mostly open sourced their code but not I think the learning data.
- eru 11y agoThey would only need to open the learned coefficients, not the data learned from.
- taneq 11y agoI like the way you think. :D
- kyrra 11y agoIf you price by the GCE calculator[0] it's $1920 to rent 1920 CPU cores for 20 hours. This doesn't include GPU costs as they don't seem to have GPUs available on cloud, but I could see that easily doubling the costs. [0] https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=f63f1fe0-5673-488d-a87a-c27e0dd0bece https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=f63f1fe0-56...
- tim333 11y agoDaresay the Economist is unclear whether they are talking chips or cores so it could be several times more cores.