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Serious question: what prevented you from using an AWS instance?
by iaw 10y ago
Serious question: what prevented you from using an AWS instance?
- kuschku 10y agoMoney? Time? Uploading hundreds of gigabytes of a dataset?
- iaw 10y agoCost for AWS GPU instances is not that high (relative to purchasing a GPU). The amount of time to transfer hundreds of gigabytes will be dwarfed by the time savings from using GPU compute. Was there a concrete reason you didn't go that route?
- kuschku 10y ago> The amount of time to transfer hundreds of gigabytes will be dwarfed by the time savings from using GPU compute. For me, it wasn’t about time savings – I had a limited timeframe, and wanted to get the models as accurate as possible within the time. Transferring the data would have taken longer than the time I had to run the training, and I while the model would have been a lot more accurate, this wasn’t too important for my paper.