Google Diet Colab Notebook - Page 100

petrw1 · 2020-12-19, 19:10

This is from the COLAB FAQ:

Quote:

What types of GPUs are available in Colab?
The types of GPUs that are available in Colab vary over time. This is necessary for Colab to be able to provide access to these resources for free.
The GPUs available in Colab often include Nvidia K80s, T4s, P4s and P100s.
There is no way to choose what type of GPU you can connect to in Colab at any given time.
Users who are interested in more reliable access to Colab’s fastest GPUs may be interested in Colab Pro.

Certainly the T4 (for TF) and P100 (for LL/P1) are the fastest so I take the above to mean my FREE account is unlikely to get them.

For the last few weeks I've had me 2 Colab session track the GPUID I got.

After 1,000 total attempts (500 each session) these are my numbers.
(DISCLAIMER: IFF I get a P100 I stop trying so that number may be slightly overstated)

Code:

TYPE     TOTAL     UNIQUE
ALL       1000        904
T4         927        832
P100       39          39
P4         27          26
K80        7            7

92.7% were T4
3.9% were P100

By the way I have much better luck getting a P100 between 0600 and 1600GMT.

moebius · 2020-12-19, 20:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by petrw1

Certainly the T4 (for TF) and P100 (for LL/P1) are the fastest so I take the above to mean my FREE account is unlikely to get them.

Since I regularly do LL with gpuowl, I know that the order in speed is as follows.
P100 354%
K80 177%
T4 133%
P4 100%

bayanne · 2020-12-20, 09:17

I will finish my final p-1 test, and then that will be me for Colab involvement, unless I hear that TF testing has come back.

Uncwilly · 2020-12-20, 14:59

I got a full 12 hour run on a cpu.

moebius · 2020-12-20, 21:10

I still have 7 1/2 hours of gpu runtime with Tesla P100, T4, K-80, P4.
I only received a Tesla V100 runtime once as a free user in the last 2 months.

Uncwilly · 2020-12-20, 21:19

In the last few hours, my GPU72 sessions have failed to fetch the payload. Did Chris close the door on this?

chalsall · 2020-12-20, 22:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

In the last few hours, my GPU72 sessions have failed to fetch the payload. Did Chris close the door on this?

No.

But I did find a bit of a strange state on the GPU72 server. Restarted both the MariaDB and Apache software stacks, and things seemed to stabilize.

I don't understand why it entered that state.

I don't like not understanding...

James Heinrich · 2020-12-20, 23:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson M. Pugh

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

chalsall · 2020-12-20, 23:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by James Heinrich

[deep metaphysics]

Thanks, James. Sincerely. I needed that just about now!

bayanne · 2020-12-21, 06:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by bayanne

I will finish my final p-1 test, and then that will be me for Colab involvement, unless I hear that TF testing has come back.

I will leave it a week or so and see if anything has changed ...

petrw1 · 2020-12-24, 18:25

No P100s lately.
Since last P100:

Session 1:
230 T4; 1 P4

Session 2:
105 T4.

2020-12-24, 18:25	#1100
petrw1 1976 Toyota Corona years forever! "Wayne" Nov 2006 Saskatchewan, Canada 2³×569 Posts	Where did they go? No P100s lately. Since last P100: Session 1: 230 T4; 1 P4 Session 2: 105 T4.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Alternatives to Google Colab	kriesel	Cloud Computing	11	2020-01-14 18:45
Notebook	enzocreti	enzocreti	0	2019-02-15 08:20
Computer Diet causes Machine Check Exception -- need heuristics help	Christenson	Hardware	32	2011-12-25 08:17
Computer diet - Need help	garo	Hardware	41	2011-10-06 04:06
Workunit diet ?	dsouza123	NFSNET Discussion	5	2004-02-27 00:42

2020-12-20, 09:17	#1092
bayanne "Tony Gott" Aug 2002 Yell, Shetland, UK 11·29 Posts	I will finish my final p-1 test, and then that will be me for Colab involvement, unless I hear that TF testing has come back.

2020-12-20, 14:59	#1093
Uncwilly 6809 > 6502 """"""""""""""""""" Aug 2003 101×103 Posts 2488₁₆ Posts	I got a full 12 hour run on a cpu.

2020-12-20, 21:10	#1094
moebius Jul 2009 Germany 547 Posts	I still have 7 1/2 hours of gpu runtime with Tesla P100, T4, K-80, P4. I only received a Tesla V100 runtime once as a free user in the last 2 months.

2020-12-20, 21:19	#1095
Uncwilly 6809 > 6502 """"""""""""""""""" Aug 2003 101×103 Posts 2488₁₆ Posts	In the last few hours, my GPU72 sessions have failed to fetch the payload. Did Chris close the door on this?