Colab

1. Intro to Colab

What is Colab?

• A free cloud service based on Jupyter Notebooks that supports GPU/TPU, offered by Google.

Why do we use Google Colab when we have local jupyter lab/notebook?

• Because Colab offers free GPU(up to 12-24GB RAM). This is good for those who don't have Nvidia GPU on their laptops.

How to create and use a Colab notebook?

• click “New” and drop the menu down to “More” and then select “Colaboratory.”

• go to the “Runtime” dropdown menu, select “change runtime type” and select GPU in the hardware accelerator drop-down menu
  

• click "save" and you are now having a Python-3 GPU kernel in use.

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