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Google Compute Engine mentions (15)

• Please bring neon db to GCP

  Surely you can run your own instances on some sort of "Compute" in GCP? https://cloud.google.com/products/compute. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Pickems website for MSI 2023

  The backend is written in node.js and is deployed using Google Compute Engine. I wanted to learn Kubernetes but it seemed more complicated and also more expensive than GCE. We also use mongodb. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is it possible to host a Golang Application Free Indefinitely?

  Google seems to have a free tiny VM offering. AWS and Azure have one for a year. Of course, whether Google's will still be free in a year is whoknows. Source: about 1 year ago

• typical programmer life

  Cloud VM's are the easy answer here. Source: over 1 year ago

• Migrating Wordpress from GCP to AWS

  You may have noticed some changes to this site. Along with some style and color changes, I've updated the domain, and focused the pages on my technical blog. Originally this site started as an administrative page for the Minecraft servers I am hosting. I built the first Minecraft server in Google Cloud on a general Compute Engine instance, and was running this web page on a separate smaller instance. As the... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

Vast.ai mentions (223)

• Nvidia pursues $30B custom chip opportunity with new unit

  There are already ways to get around this. For example, renting compute from people who aren't in datacenters. Which is already a thing: https://vast.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• A SETI-like project to train LLM on libgen, scihub and the likes?

  By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?

  - https://vast.ai/ (linked by gchadwick above). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?

  Have you considered running on a cloud machine instead? You can rent machines on https://vast.ai/ for under $1 an hour that should work for small/medium models (I've mostly been playing with stable diffusion so I don't know what you'd need for an LLM off hand). Good GPUs and Apple hardware is pricey. Get a bit of automation setup with some cloud storage (e.g backblaze B2) and you can have a machine ready to run... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Budget-friendly Cloud server to host OpenAI Whisper?

  I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 5 months ago