You want to run some heavy tasks in a cloud using GPUs. What would you do?

  • What features are the most important for you in a GPU cloud provider? Is it price, availability, GPU models, or something else?
  • How do you choose an instance type to run? Typically there are dozens of different instances in each provider.
  • Do you regularly use one or more providers?
  • CrazyCrab@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    First, I tried vast.ai because I had heard good things about it and it had instances with good hardware and not super expensive instances. It was a dumpster fire. Instances having random technical problems, the support never responding.

    Then I tried lambda labs. It was super awesome, good price, basically the best thing ever, except they were often out of capacity and didn’t have suitable instances available.

    Then I heard somewhere about oblivus.ai. Tried it, was also a dumpster fire, basically the same as vast.ai - technical problems with instances (even non-community ones), support that never responded.

    Then I tried google cloud compute and it’s expensive and complicated but at least it works. That’s what I use nowadays.