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by moonbug22 3161 days ago
Come on, no one with any sense pays the on demand price for these things. Watch the spots.
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Yes, p3.2xlarge in us-east-1b is currently sitting at $0.3204 spot. That's only marginally more than p2.xlarge (at $0.2259 in us-east-1e).

I'm sure this will change with demand, though. :(

There are enough companies out there with deep pockets that want to do some ML. They'll pay pay those prices, no questions asked.
Per the marketing material it's up to a PFLOP of mixed precision (is that the same as just saying "half precision"? or is it 8 bit?) for $25/hour.

I can easily see people paying full price for that. Still, spot price is currently $2.40.

It must be a misplaced comma. 15.7 single precision can never translate to 125 mixed.
The reason Nvidia quote 120 TLFOPS mixed precision on V100 is because of the new tensor core.

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-volta/

Also all startups with (basically) unlimited aws credits
Yep agreed. Didn't want to post the spot pricing since it changes all the time :)