Google Colab Benefits

[Alex-A14]

Lots of good data options!
I might use the one of them.

I noticed you're thinking about Colab? Can anyone access their GPU resources? Do you think it's an easier way to use cloud computing, say, if you want something a little faster than a laptop but don't want to go through the trouble of setting up Compute Canada integration?

[marcelfarres]

Hello Alex!

Happy to see that is useful for other people will add more info about them/others.

Yep, anyone can access the GPUs, you need to adapt your code to use them but. I saw some examples last week using Colab and it seems easy to use and faster than a normal laptop. It also can be hosted in google drive/github giving lots of flexibility for collaboration without having to configure the env. And also can run locally configuring the env.

[marcelfarres]

You can see this example from last week:
https://colab.research.google.com/github/neurodatascience/course-materials-2020/blob/master/lectures/15-may/02-applications-of-deep-learning/mtl_deep_learning_jakubkaczmarzyk.ipynb