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It'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
by Robadob 9y ago
It'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.