Cocalc for student project

[Krysalide]

hello,
I hope i post at the right place.
I begin a project as a student, i need at least 800MB of storage for my dataset and access to GPU for deep learning training. I will use it 2 hours per day during 3 months. I am ready to spend 15 dollars per month. Can you give me some advice? Is it a good idea to take a compute server? What can i get for 15 dollars? Best Regards. Christophe D

[williamstein]

What can i get for 15 dollars?

That's $0.50/day. Since you want to use a compute server with a GPU for 2 hours, that's $0.25/hour. You can get a spot instance T4 on Google Cloud via CoCalc for about $0.16/hour

That leaves $0.18/day (50-2*16 = 18). You can get a cocalc license with 2 GB RAM and 3 GB disk for $5.43/month (or about $0.18/day):

https://cocalc.com/store/site-license?user=academic&period=monthly&run_limit=1&cpu=1&ram=2&disk=3&uptime=short&member=true

I would recommend buying both a license and then using a T4 spot instance compute server (pay as you go), in order to fit within your budget.

NOTE: Compute servers are the only way to use GPU's on CoCalc.

-- William

[Krysalide]

Thanks for your answer!! I have another question: Is it possible to do some remote ssh from vscode and run the code on cocalc server?

[Krysalide]

Do you advise any particular local IDE using remote ssh?

[williamstein]

Wait, I thought you were asking about using VS Code as a local IDE (e.g., running it on your laptop), then connecting to cocalc from there?

[williamstein]

You can easily run vscode directly on the compute server, by just clicking the "VS Code" in the "..." dropdown.

[Krysalide]

yes i am going to test that possibility first, although i really prefer to use local IDE.

[Krysalide]

i finally took a license and will use a gpu when needed. I want to say vs code in the browser is really nice. Thanks!!!