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At 50% utilization it beats the cloud in 2 months. 10% utilization, it beats the cloud within a year. If you're dabbling, definitely go with the cloud, but if y
by jjoonathan 6y ago
At 50% utilization it beats the cloud in 2 months. 10% utilization, it beats the cloud within a year. If you're dabbling, definitely go with the cloud, but if you're turning around experiments on a regular basis, buying gets attractive quickly.
And no, cards don't just keel over in a few months at 100%. Crypto miners ran that experiment. A typical card has years of 100% in it.
- TylerE 6y agoOnly if your power is free (it isn't) and the machine the card is in is free (it isn't) and said machine produces no heat or noise (it does).
- nullifidian 6y agoPower doesn't cost nearly as much for TCO to get anywhere near even the "preemptible price" of V100 (and probably A100 when it's ready) over a period of half a year. And now that 3090 has 24gb, which is needed for larger models, a solution with a couple of consumer cards is even more competitive for experimentation. You can also sell your cards in a year or two, and recover some of the costs. (All that of course if Nvidia's gimping of consumer cards doesn't significantly affect your code)
- gambiting 6y agoSo for the people who I know do it professionally, the answer is really simple - when they run calculations for clients, they can add GCP compute time on the invoice. You can't bill a client for your own electricity usage. I mean you can factor it into the price of your service, but then that brings a whole pile of other issues with it.
- jjoonathan 6y agoCloud if: - Someone else is paying - You expect to dabble - You need burst capability Buy if: - Cost sensitive & capable
- jjoonathan 6y agoI rounded down AWS's price by $.06/hr, more than the price of electricity and cooling around here.