Pull request of the runtime repository and request for increasing the running time limit

Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge
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I‘ve opened a pull request on the runtime repository. I want to test my code on the server. Could someone merge it? In addition, is it possible to increase the running time limit of a single epsilon to 1 hour? Thanks.

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Hi @hecci,
We’ve merged the PR and updated the competition container. You should be able to run code that imports cupy now. We also increased the running time to 1 hour as requested. Good luck!
Robert

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Hi, it seems that 1 hour is not enough. Could you increase the running time limit to 3 hours? Thanks.

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Thanks for merging the PR. I noticed the total running time for 3 epsilons is increased to 1 hours, but my code requires up to 1 hour per epsilon. Is there any chance that the total running time can be increased to 3 hours? Thank you.

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@hecci - Sure thing, the runtime limit has been increased to 3h total. Good luck.

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Will there be a time limit on final submissions? Or only submissions to the prescreened leaderboard?

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@rmckenna As long as the final submissions will finish in a reasonable amount of time (like 4-6 hours max) then you don’t have to worry about it. You can assume the input files for final scoring will be the same order of magnitude in size.

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What are the specs of the machine it will be run on? What if it takes more like 24 hours? Will such submissions be rejected?

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You can assume an AWS p2.8xlarge or comparable host.

Offhand 24 hours seems excessive – is that necessary for your method?

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Yeah some of the methods I am considering require that much time (per epsilon). For that host would we be able to utilize all cores or will you be running other in parallel on those resources?

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@rmckenna We’ve conferred with the organizers, and the maximum time per epsilon in final scoring will be 4 hours (so 8 hours total).

For that host would we be able to utilize all cores or will you be running other in parallel on those resources?

You can use all cores.

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Thank you for the clarification. Can we utilize the 8 hours total in different ways than an even split? E.g., we may want to use 6 hours for Epsilon=10.0 and 2 hours for epsilon=1.0. Would that be acceptable?

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@rmckenna Sure, that will be fine.