Cloud Mercato tested CPU performance using a range of encryption speed tests:
Cloud Mercato's tested the I/O performance of this instance using a 100GB General Purpose SSD. Below are the results:
I/O rate testing is conducted with local and block storages attached to the instance. Cloud Mercato uses the well-known open-source tool FIO. To express IOPS the following parametersare used: 4K block, random access, no filesystem (except for write access with root volume and avoidance of cache and buffer.
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Pretraining a small model like nanoGPT on a p3.2xlarge instance, the AWS Deep Learning AMI is a suitable choice. It comes pre-configured with popular deep learning frameworks, NVIDIA drivers, and libraries, making it easy to get started with

One thing to note - although the p3 isn’t much better than a 1080ti you can buy yourself, it’s _much_ better than the p2. So if you need to use AWS, and need to run big models quickly, a p3 is a good option.

Don’t get suckered by AWS and Volta. The Amazon P3 instances (available Oregon) feature the latest DL GPU tech at $3.06 an hour (2xlarge) but PyTorch, TF, et al can’t utilize it fully yet.

Testing new Tesla V100 on AWS. Fine-tuning VGG on DeepSent dataset for 10 epochs.

If you really want to get into the black magic of speed-ups, these cards also feature full FP16 support, which means you can double your TFLOPS by dropping to FP16 from FP32.

For anyone using the standard set of frameworks (Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, Chainer, MXNet, DyNet, DeepLearning4j, ...) this type of speed-up will likely require you to do nothing - except throw more money at the P3 instance :)

Oh, and the V100 comes with 16GB of (faster) RAM compared to the K80's 12GB of RAM, so you win there too.

P3 (V100) with single GPU: ~20 seconds per epoch

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I asked AWS to let me use a p3 instance. Their answer : no.

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After I build PyTorch from source, there’s no initialization delay in conv_learner. Works smoothly.

p3 instances were not showing because of the AWS region that I was assigned. I changed that to Oregon and that fixed the problem.

The P3 is 800% faster than P2 for training with fastai!

Testing new Tesla V100 on AWS. Fine-tuning VGG on DeepSent dataset for 10 epochs.

If you really want to get into the black magic of speed-ups, these cards also feature full FP16 support, which means you can double your TFLOPS by dropping to FP16 from FP32.

For anyone using the standard set of frameworks (Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, Chainer, MXNet, DyNet, DeepLearning4j, ...) this type of speed-up will likely require you to do nothing - except throw more money at the P3 instance :)

P3 (V100) with single GPU: ~20 seconds per epoch

Oh, and the V100 comes with 16GB of (faster) RAM compared to the K80's 12GB of RAM, so you win there too.

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In my app, I repurposed a pre-trained vgg19 model. Inference time of one 256x256 color jpeg on p3.2xlarge with the Volta AMI was like 100 milliseconds or less.

How about "NVIDIA Volta Deep Learning AMI" with p3.2xlarge (Tesla V100 GPU) instance?

I'm having the same issue on p3.2xlarge instances.

One thing to note - although the p3 isn’t much better than a 1080ti you can buy yourself, it’s _much_ better than the p2. So if you need to use AWS, and need to run big models quickly, a p3 is a good option.

Don’t get suckered by AWS and Volta. The Amazon P3 instances (available Oregon) feature the latest DL GPU tech at $3.06 an hour (2xlarge) but PyTorch, TF, et al can’t utilize it fully yet.

In my app, I repurposed a pre-trained vgg19 model. Inference time of one 256x256 color jpeg on p3.2xlarge with the Volta AMI was like 100 milliseconds or less.

How about "NVIDIA Volta Deep Learning AMI" with p3.2xlarge (Tesla V100 GPU) instance?

I'm having the same issue on p3.2xlarge instances.

I'm having the same issue on p3.2xlarge instances.