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GPU-Accelerated Computing with Python 3 and CUDA
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GPUs are expensive, especially models that need to perform serious number crunching. Consumer-grade gaming GPUs in the upper price segment are quite powerful, but pale in comparison to data center-grade GPUs that cost one or two orders of magnitude more. However, we can get access to the most powerful GPUs by renting them in the cloud. This is not cheap, but it can be far more affordable than buying, maintaining, and monitoring the hardware, since in the cloud, we only pay for the time we use the device and don't have to worry about maintenance.
This section will cover two approaches for using a GPU in the cloud: with managed notebook services and with cloud VMs. The managed notebook services will be illustrated with Google Colab. VMs will be demonstrated on Lambda Labs and AWS. These services are some options among many; their inclusion in this book does not constitute an endorsement or advertisement.
Google Colab is a service...