Davi Sales Barreira (Jan 28 2021 at 18:46): Davi Sales Barreira (Jan 28 2021 at 18:46):What are good options for Cloud Computing with Julia? I'm mostly interested in Machine Learning. I found Julia Hub, but there is no free tier, so I was looking for alternatives. It would be good to know what the community is recommending. :D
Expanding Man (Jan 28 2021 at 18:48):Depends on what you are looking to do. I personally prefer just running stuff on ordinary linux servers. Distributed computing with Julia supports ClusterMangers so it's fairly straightforward to just launch a bunch of servers and run distributed jobs
Expanding Man (Jan 28 2021 at 18:49):If your question was about hosting, then you can look for hosting wherever you'd look for hosting for anywhere else. In general there aren't too many people eager to host free servers for people, so it seems likely you'd have to pay in any case
Davi Sales Barreira (Jan 28 2021 at 18:52):Thanks. I'm mostly interested in ML, so JuliaHub is the sort of stuff I'm looking for. Sometimes they offer a free tier, like Google Collab (which I don't really like), so I was thinking maybe there was something similar for Julia.
Eric Forgy (Jan 28 2021 at 18:59):These resources cost money, so you either pay for the product or you are the product :nerd:
Davi Sales Barreira (Jan 28 2021 at 19:03):Yeah, unfortunately brazilian currency is really depreciated compared to USD, so everything is waaaay too expensive for me :/
Expanding Man (Jan 28 2021 at 19:04):Also, I deal with AWS a bit at my job... their pricing for simple low-resource machines for e.g. web hosting are pretty reasonable... but once you get into anything resembling serious computing, my GOD is their pricing insane. You can build your very own machine with a GPU for ML for about 60 days worth of the same thing from AWS
Expanding Man (Jan 28 2021 at 19:05):So I guess the lesson is that paying for hosting should be avoided like the plague for anything but very simple stuff
Expanding Man (Jan 28 2021 at 19:06):And it's not even all AWS's fault (though I'm sure most of it is): pricing of "commercial" hardware is also totally insane. Took me a while to even convince myself that the prices I was seeing on some dell servers were even real
Mason Protter (Jan 28 2021 at 19:15):Davi Sales Barreira said:
Yeah, unfortunately brazilian currency is really depreciated compared to USD, so everything is waaaay too expensive for me :confused:
Could always buy like a raspberry Pi or something or an old desktop that's destined for the trash and turn it into your own personal cloud server.
Eric Forgy (Jan 28 2021 at 19:18):It might be worth reaching out to JC to see if you can work something out. They might be able to give you a break given the circumstances, e.g. maybe barter somehow.
Ari Katz (Jan 28 2021 at 20:46):There's a way to get Julia with GPUs working on colab
Robbie Rosati (Jan 28 2021 at 21:53):I did this recently, following this guide: https://dev117uday.medium.com/how-to-run-julia-on-google-colab-dd631e6e7e43. If the colab restarts, you'll unfortunately have to reinstall all your packages and wait for them to compile again. I ended up self-hosting something after using colab after a couple weeks, but it works (or at least did last time I tried in October-ish).
Andrew Dinhobl (Jan 29 2021 at 00:36):If you look up the julia for pythonistas colab notebook, it runs.
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