Oct 15, 2019New Features in October: Bulk Actions, Label Filtering, Faster Machine Start-up, and More!From faster machine start-up to increased visibility of your workflows, Spell continues to streamline your Machine Learning pipeline. Start Runs from Repositories with Uncommitted Changes Spell automatically syncs uncommitted changes and use those changes as a git patch within your run. We provide a link that enables you to download the changes from your web console. Iterate…Jupyter2 min readJupyter2 min read
Sep 9, 2019New Features in September: Jupyter Updates, Upload to Private Clusters, and a New Machine TypeJupyter Updates We’ve made a number of updates to Jupyter workspaces that make it easier for you to do your work without leaving your Jupyter workspace environment. Tabs: Tabs make it easier to access hardware metrics, files, and mounts without going back to your workspace list page to open up the details…Cloud Computing2 min readCloud Computing2 min read
Aug 12, 2019New Features in August: Pins and Labels, Filters, and Disk Usage GraphPins and Labels Pins make it easy to find your most important runs by bringing pinned runs to the top of your runs list. If you’re part of a team, the runs you pin will only be visible to you. You can also organize runs with labels, so they’re easy to spot. Labels…Dev Ops1 min readDev Ops1 min read
Jul 15, 2019New Features in July: Run Spell in Your GCP Account, GitHub Private Repo Selector, Infrastructure Scaling Improvements, and More!Run Spell in Your GCP Account When we launched AWS Dedicated Clusters, we already had our sights set on GCP next. This past month, we officially launched support for running Spell in your own GCP account. This means you can use Spell to manage your own dedicated GCP cluster, with support for the following features: Runs…Cloud Computing2 min readCloud Computing2 min read
Jul 15, 2019Reducing the costs of machine learning experiments with Spot Instances and Auto BackupsThe increasing availability of powerful compute resources is one of the main drivers of the rise of machine learning applications. But the cost of computation is also one of the main reasons people hesitate to run too many experiments. Building machine learning models requires a lot of trial and error…AWS2 min readAWS2 min read
Jun 17, 2019New Features in June: Spot Instances, Private GitHub Repos, Runs on the Web, and more!Our new features in June make experiments much cheaper, saving models and run outputs 50% faster, and put more of your work at your fingertips on the web. Read on for more! Spot Instances Save 80% or more on your cloud hardware costs with spot instances. Users on our Teams plan can…Machine Learning3 min readMachine Learning3 min read
Jun 12, 2019The magazine that writes itselfWe asked an AI to write about the future, here’s what it has to say and the steps we took to build it. — by Kathryn Lawrence TL;DR (or if you don’t care how it’s built, and just want to read some articles about the future written by AI): Yes, the magazine can write itself, but it still needs a human publisher. Check it out at montag.xyz The source material for this Spell-enabled project…Github17 min readGithub17 min read
May 20, 2019New Features in May: Distributed Training and Simplified Teams PricingAt Spell, we’re always looking for ways to make your machine learning workflow faster and easier. This month, we’re announcing one big new feature for Teams as well as a new pricing structure that is simpler and more transparent. Interested in trying our Teams features? Email us at support@spell.run. Distributed Training with Horovod The…Machine Learning2 min readMachine Learning2 min read
Apr 22, 2019New Features in April: Run Spell in your AWS Account, PyTorch Model Serving, and Bayesian Hyperparameter SearchIt’s April and spring has come to New York City and Spell. We have a bunch of big new features we’re launching this month. Head to spell.run to test them out and tell us what you think! Spell Cluster Management Since we announced Dedicated Clusters in January we’ve been onboarding customers and starting…2 min read2 min read
Apr 17, 2019Bayesian Hyperparameter Search on SpellIn addition to our existing grid and random hyperparameter strategies, Spell is excited to announce support for bayesian search. One of our awesome winter interns, Nikhil Bhatia, built a workflow that performed bayesian searches. …Machine Learning4 min readMachine Learning4 min read
