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Did you mean to say GCE/AWS could gobble up "unpaid for" resources for their own computation? Curious because if I pay for using a P100 for 2 hours - it is 100
by reacharavindh 10y ago
Did you mean to say GCE/AWS could gobble up "unpaid for" resources for their own computation?
Curious because if I pay for using a P100 for 2 hours - it is 100% available to me and not virtualized of any sort right?
However, if I use it only for 2 hours that day, and no one else were ready and waiting to buy the time on those, then Google uses it internally until...
- boulos 10y agoFrom our post: > GPUs are offered in passthrough mode to provide bare metal performance. Up to 8 GPU dies can be attached per VM instance including custom machine types. When you're using it, it's 100% yours. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and pitched in on this!)