Cloud Resources for Deep Learning (GPUs)

If you want to start using deep neural networks then you really need access to NVIDIA GPUs to speed up the training process. Even if you have access to a GPUs managing the drivers and version of the various packages can be a pain and takes time

Cloud resources give access to GPUs and even preconfigured deep learning environments

This is far from a complete reference but this are the programmes and products I've had experience with.

Zero effort

Google Colab (HD - 20GB, RAM - 12GB GPU - K80 12GB) instances last for 12 hours

Microsoft Azure Notebooks (HD - 20GB, RAM 4GB, GPU - none ) instances last for ?

Minimal effort (+credit card)

Google Cloud Research Credits

Short (two page) research proposal to get $5000 in cloud credits for 6 months every year for different projects!

• Google cloud Deep learning VM (TensorFlow, PyTorch, ...)
• AI Notebooks
• Roll your own

More effort (+credit card)

Amazon Web Services Credits

Estimate costs using their calculator which is a bit painful and then submit request.

• Amazon Deep Learning AMI

Kaggle

Upload dataset

Microsoft Azure

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