Another popular cloud provider is Google. Its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is getting more and has as a major benefit—it includes a newer GPU type, NVIDIA P100, with 16 GB of GPU memory. In this recipe, we provide the steps to launch a GPU-enabled compute machine.
- You need to request an increase in the GPU quota before you launch a compute instance with a GPU for the first time. Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/projectselector/iam-admin/quotas.
- First, select the project you want to use and apply the
Metric
andRegion
filters accordingly. The GPU instances should show up as follows:
Figure 1.1: Google Cloud Platform dashboard for increasing the GPU quotas
- Select the quota you want to change, click on EDIT QUOTAS, and follow the steps.
- You will get an e-mail confirmation when your quota has been increased.
- Afterwards, you can create a GPU-enabled machine.
- When launching a machine, make sure you tick the Allow HTTP traffic and Allow HTTPs traffic boxes if you want to use a Jupyter notebook.