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how can they make it free? Would this not be anti-competitive to smaller companies charging money for it?
by chickenthief 9y ago
how can they make it free? Would this not be anti-competitive to smaller companies charging money for it?
- minimaxir 9y agoAt current prices, the VM + GPU is $0.57/hr, which doesn’t break Google’s bank and is absurdly cheap for usability testing for a new product.
- jo909 9y agoAnd the preemtible price is only $0.22 per GPU. Not that the GPUs used here seem to be preemtible, but this might give some hint to the baseline cost.
- Robadob 9y agoIt's previous gen hardware, so presumably the only cost to google is energy usage and similar. They probably use the newer p100 and v100 cards internally which are significantly faster for deep learning.
- chickenthief 9y agoIt does not seem worthless: https://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Tesla-GDDR5-Cores-Graphic/dp/B00Q7O7PQA https://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Tesla-GDDR5-Cores-Graphic/dp/B... . It must have some depreciation cost.
- puzzle 9y agoNot only that, the hardware is already on, so it's only a matter of the cost difference between an idle GPU and a busy one. It's not inconceivable that if enough paying customers showed up with K80 workloads, these freebie users might have to wait longer.
- puzzle 9y agoPresumably, there's not an unlimited number of them.