Compute resources for the competition?

[krishnab75]

Say, I was just wondering if there are any compute resources available for this competition? I am talking about AWS, GCP, or other resources to train the models. Vision models take such a long time, that it would be nice to access some TPUs or V100s when models are ready to ramp up.

[bhali12]

You can use google colab! They have free GPU fir this type of problems.

Google Colab: Jupyter Lab on steroids (perfect for Deep Learning)

[bkowshik]

Just got up and running with Google Colab and wrote down the steps at the link below:

Requesting GCP credits

@sushant3095 I was able to get up and running for free on Google Colaboratory in about 30 mins with the following steps. Visit https://colab.research.google.com/ and create a new Python 3 notebook In the Runtime menu, select Change runtime type and then select Hardware accelerator as GPU Download the entire dataset of ~30GB using wget wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/drivendata-public-assets/stac.tar You will find the dataset available at the path, /content/stac.tar in about 15 mins …