> Weren’t they already doing the processing server side? Yes, but they were using Google Colab because Colab will give each user their own dedicated Nvidia K80

> Weren’t they already doing the processing server side? Yes, but they were using Google Colab because Colab will give each user their own dedicated Nvidia K80 for free. Google will spin up a new instance to back each user's Colab session, but on Google's rather than the researcher's or the user's dime. The downside though is paying for the data egress, which can be avoided if the users download to Colab from somewhere else, or download from somewhere else to their own machines that have a GPU with 12GB of onboard memory.