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Re:Benchmarking Modern GPUs for Maximum Cloud Cost Efficienc... by svantana on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:04PM (#15942095)
>But the best deal with regards to GPUs is to buy your own and put it in your office.

Of course, if you need to use it _all_ the time (or need to heat the space). The whole point of cloud computing is to share those resources with others when you don't need them.

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Re:Benchmarking Modern GPUs for Maximum Cloud Cost Efficienc... by brianchu on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:58PM (#15942396)
Right, but after 3-4 months of full time use (and it's not hard to use these full-time, since models can take days to train), you've spent more than if you just bought one outright.
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