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Multi-GPU training is hard (without PyTorch Lightning)

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

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Is It Better to Train on a Grid?

Training models on gps in the cloud is always going to be more expensive than training on a sort of, like you're going to buy a on prem server and do it in house. People don't generally optimize their stuff in the back end to do that. So what the end of doing is they want to run inthe local machines, because they don't have to instelt their environments again. It's just there, and it's reputable, and things start immediately. Spot instances are machines that can be killed at any time by a w s, right? Or whatever. And then if i'm getting more minutes out of that, that nouveau factor plus other stuff,

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