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I am currently getting into GPU cloud computing, and tried various options. My Azure experience was terrible, I could not even spin up a VM, I would get some ex

I am currently getting into GPU cloud computing, and tried various options. My Azure experience was terrible, I could not even spin up a VM, I would get some exception message (in the Dashboard). Pretty much continues my Windows experience from about 16 years ago when I abandoned it for the Mac.

alasdair_ 7y ago
> I am currently getting into GPU cloud computing, and tried various options. My Azure experience was terrible, I could not even spin up a VM, I would get some exception message (in the Dashboard). Pretty much continues my Windows experience from about 16 years ago when I abandoned it for the Mac. I'd love to hear what mac-based GPU cloud computing system you are using. Apple badly needs a cloud compute system. If you ever need to do a lot of iOS/Xcode builds (say, a build server for mobile apps at a large company) you'll find that it's just about impossible to get a good, scalable system from Apple. Apple don't allow VMs (not in a scalable way anyway) so every instance needs to run on its own Apple hardware. This led to us having to buy huge numbers of "trashcan" macs to do our builds - they didn't even have a good rackmount solution for high end mac-based servers.
- my123 7y ago
  Apple allows VMs when the host is Apple hardware... but yeah that's not very scalable.
  - mjlee 7y ago
    It's still not very scalable on Apple hardware - the licence only allows you to run 2 virtualised instances per physical machine.
- heavenlyblue 7y ago
  Is there any real reason why parent is being downvoted?
  - leblancfg 7y ago
    > I'd love to hear what mac-based GPU cloud computing system you are using Is a strawman, and snarky at that. You could presume original commenter is just interested in a *nix-based GPU VM.
- auggierose 7y ago
  Oh I am just using GCP instead. Needed to wait 2 days for it, but at least it worked from the beginning.
  - auggierose 7y ago
    And yes, I think Apple should work on bringing Metal to the cloud.
leblancfg 7y ago
FWIW, the process of spinning up an Ubuntu Data Science Virtual Machine on a GPU resource type has gone without a hitch over here. Last I checked it's only available in some areas, though, so YMMV.

alasdair_ 7y ago

> I am currently getting into GPU cloud computing, and tried various options. My Azure experience was terrible, I could not even spin up a VM, I would get some exception message (in the Dashboard). Pretty much continues my Windows experience from about 16 years ago when I abandoned it for the Mac. I'd love to hear what mac-based GPU cloud computing system you are using. Apple badly needs a cloud compute system. If you ever need to do a lot of iOS/Xcode builds (say, a build server for mobile apps at a large company) you'll find that it's just about impossible to get a good, scalable system from Apple. Apple don't allow VMs (not in a scalable way anyway) so every instance needs to run on its own Apple hardware. This led to us having to buy huge numbers of "trashcan" macs to do our builds - they didn't even have a good rackmount solution for high end mac-based servers.

my123 7y ago
Apple allows VMs when the host is Apple hardware... but yeah that's not very scalable.
- mjlee 7y ago
  It's still not very scalable on Apple hardware - the licence only allows you to run 2 virtualised instances per physical machine.
heavenlyblue 7y ago
Is there any real reason why parent is being downvoted?
- leblancfg 7y ago
  > I'd love to hear what mac-based GPU cloud computing system you are using Is a strawman, and snarky at that. You could presume original commenter is just interested in a *nix-based GPU VM.
auggierose 7y ago
Oh I am just using GCP instead. Needed to wait 2 days for it, but at least it worked from the beginning.
- auggierose 7y ago
  And yes, I think Apple should work on bringing Metal to the cloud.

leblancfg 7y ago

FWIW, the process of spinning up an Ubuntu Data Science Virtual Machine on a GPU resource type has gone without a hitch over here. Last I checked it's only available in some areas, though, so YMMV.