Google Cloud: GPUs in Kubernetes Engine Now Available in Beta

Posted by bajaj on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:52PM
from the cloudplatform.googleblog.com dept.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/02/accelerate-highly-parallelized-compute-tasks-with-GPUs-in-Kubernetes-Engine.html

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Re:Google Cloud: GPUs in Kubernetes Engine Now Available in ... by discardable_dan on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @12:30AM (#16364970)

The real question is: does Google Cloud charge more or less per GPU cycle than one can make mining cryptocurrency with it? If it's less, I expect these to be at load momentarily.

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Re:Google Cloud: GPUs in Kubernetes Engine Now Available in ... by londons_explore on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @03:53AM (#16365689)

They charge more. It's significantly cheaper to build your own infrastructure if you don't need the on demand availability, reliability and minimal maintenance the cloud offers.

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Re:Google Cloud: GPUs in Kubernetes Engine Now Available in ... by numbernine on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @11:29AM (#16368350)

Can someone explain me why one would need a container orchestration system to train ml models? Why wouldn't one just stick with containers?

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Re:Google Cloud: GPUs in Kubernetes Engine Now Available in ... by thesandlord on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @12:05PM (#16368713)

For the same reason you would use a container orchestration system for running anything: easier deployments, scaling, reliability, etc.

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