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I think you're definitely winning on price- provided you plan to run things continuously for that time period. The AWS GPU instances are probably not aimed at y
by mabbo 10y ago
I think you're definitely winning on price- provided you plan to run things continuously for that time period. The AWS GPU instances are probably not aimed at you though.
It's far more likely to be aimed at the Master's student in ML who has this new awesome model but it takes goddamn forever to train on his laptop and he just needs 3 days of time with a big-ass GPU instance.
He spins up the instances, runs his model, spins it down and is out what, $100 maybe? That fits into his limited budget.
Additional benefit: if I buy a kickass GPU, I'm going to reduce my overall productivity in research because now I can finally play some of these hot new games on full graphics!
- tmsldd 10y agoHopefully everything works fine for the student at the first run ;)
- bhouston 10y ago> It's far more likely to be aimed at the Master's student in ML I am pretty sure AWS isn't targeting its services at Master's students.
- chrisfosterelli 10y ago> It's far more likely to be aimed at the Master's student in ML As a counter example, I'm a master's student in ML and my lab wants to push more for an onsite machine since it's easier to expense one machine than a bunch of monthly AWS bills for each student in the lab :) Additionally, most Master's students (at least in Canada) already have access to one or more very large compute clusters for jobs like this. I have used AWS a few times when I was short on time though!