Information about available GPU resources

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a service that provides you with specific machines for a specific amount of time to setup, run, and collect your experiments - https://cloud.google.com/ 

• The course has been granted coupons on GCP for $50 free credit in total for each student of this course.  This should correspond to around 120 hours of using NVIDIA K80.
  
  
• Please check out Sections 1-3 of : Google Cloud Setup and Tutorial - cs231nLinks to an external site. before you redeem your course GCP coupon. 
  
  
• There is one coupon per student on the course. To redeem your coupon please follow the instructions here:   How to redeem my GCP coupon
  
  
• To get GPU access on GCP please read Section 4 '"Request an Increase in GPU Quota"Links to an external site. of the tutorial: Google Cloud Setup and Tutorial - cs231nLinks to an external site.
  
  
• You also need to set up and access a Deep Learning Virtual machine. This is described in sections 5 and 6 of Google Cloud Setup and Tutorial - cs231nLinks to an external site. where the solution is based on gcloud. We describe an alternate route without gcloud via our tutorial: DD2424__2021____Tutorial_on_Google_Cloud_Platform-1.pdf Download DD2424__2021____Tutorial_on_Google_Cloud_Platform-1.pdf
  
• Additionally, Google Colab provides free GPU (or TPU!) access for a limited time - https://colab.research.google.com Links to an external site.
• Important note: GCP gives $300 free credit to all new customers! Make sure you sign up for it before you activate the coupon granted to you for this course - https://cloud.google.com/free/ (Links to an external site.)
  • The coupons you get specifically for this course should be enough for course-related work, but if you activate them first you will no longer be a new customer and you will not be eligible for $300 free credit
    
    

    Potential roadblock: Even though GCP provides a $300 initial credit, you must enable billing to use it. You can put a credit card or a bank account but the latter will take several days for the activation.