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Best Deals in Deep Learning Cloud Providers
AWS, Google, Paperspace, vast.ai and more
I wanted to figure out where I should train my deep learning models online for the lowest cost and least hassle. I wasn’t able to find a good comparison of GPU cloud service providers, so I decided to make my own.
Feel free to skip to the pretty charts if you know all about GPUs and TPUs and just want the results.
I’m not looking at serving models in this article, but I might in the future. Follow me to make sure you don’t miss out.
Deep Learning Chip Options
Let’s briefly look at the types of chips available for deep learning. I’ll simplify the major offerings by comparing them to Ford cars.
CPUs alone are really slow for deep learning. You do not want to use them. They are fine for many machine learning tasks, just not deep learning. The CPU is the horse and buggy of deep learning.
GPUs are much faster than CPUs for most deep learning computations. NVDIA makes most of the GPUs on the market. The next few chips we’ll discuss are NVDIA GPUs.
One NVIDIA K80 is about the minimum you need to get started with deep learning and not have excruciatingly slow training times. The K80 is like the Ford Model A — a…
