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Re:John Carmack trying to get a bunch of GPUs on Google Cloud by dilyevsky on Thursday December 01, 2022 @08:23PM (#33825556)
If you have quota that doesn’t prevent stock out at all which cloud support will be happy to tell you when you have tons pf quota but can’t spin up any more VMs in a region
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Re:John Carmack trying to get a bunch of GPUs on Google Cloud by kevincox on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:42AM (#33842739)
No, but it provides some control. They will stock out if everyone suddenly uses their entire quota (they aren't reservations) but by limiting the quotas that they issue they can reduce the impact of single actors or large swings of smaller actors on availability.

Basically it improves the predictability of resource usages by limiting outlier spikes.

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