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Kudos to Google for making moves here. Having spent the last year+ tackling GPUs in the datacenter, super curious how custom sizing works. It's a huge technical feat to get eight GPUs running (let alone, in a virtual environment), but the real challenge is making sure the blocks/puzzle pieces all fit together so there's no idle hardware sitting around There's a reason why Amazon's G/P instances require that you double the RAM/CPU if you double the GPU. Another example would be Digital Ocean's linear scale-up of instance types. In any case, we'll have to see what pricing comes out to.

Shameless plug, if you want raw access to a GPU in the cloud today, shoot me an email at daniel at paperspace.com We have people doing everything from image analysis to genomics to a whole lot of ML/AI.

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Paperspace looks pretty awesome. Given the exorbitant expense of the new MacBook Pros, I'm thinking of getting a iPad Pro instead, except that you still can't really do dev work conveniently on an iPad.

This looks like it might be a cool solution to that problem. Use iOS most of the time (I'm a writer) and the Paperspace VM on the iPad for coding (I'm also a wannabe developer).

Only fly in the ointment is that it's not available in Europe, and I'm worried about latency over a 4g connection.

For $25/month, just rent a dedicated server in Europe (or even just put in your basement if your network connection is sufficiently sized). RDP with HyperV has everything you need for that sort of usage (RemoteFX).

For coding, you don't even need a GPU. Just use RDP. Big companies use this all the time (thin clients + central server farm, also called VDI).

I tend to prefer Linux on the server, and I've tried the iPad + tmux + vim route on a remote server and the experience hasn't been great. It's usually latency problems that trip me up. I travel a lot and rely on tethering to my phone's 4g connection, which mostly works but can be quite frustrating.

Living permanently on 4G I couldn't get by without mosh. I have managed to do weeks of work with most+tmux+vim at times when ssh was too painful to use.

On mosh's note. It's great experience for slow connection. Totally agree. There is new ios client recently released client with mosh support build-in [1]. Happy user

[1] http://www.blink.sh/

But Paperspace is Windows only.

If you want Linux remoting, I recommend either x11vnc or xrdp.

Paperspace looks awesome, but I found the pricing on the homepage misleading.

It says in big font "Starting at $5/month". Then I clicked "Pricing" and the cheapest I see is "$15/month". What's the $5 plan?

Maybe the $5 means hourly usage (which has a $5 fixed monthly storage cost) and then not actually using it? Strange indeed, but looks very interesting!

Does paperspace suffer from network latency?

Yes and no. There was minor lag ... enough to be a slight nuisance when I was connected over wifi...

There was 0 lag when connected directly over the ethernet. It was seamless.

Though I should add that the paperspace server I was connecting to was located less than 50 miles from my laptop.

>Your password is too weak

This better be worth it! :P

Would you also have anything available in Europe?