Computing Resources

Running recommender-system experiments may require significant computing resources. Especially memory-based approaches like kNN might need more memory than a normal desktop computer offers. Luckily, many organisations offer free or cheap (cloud) computing resources, though often limited in their free versions

Cloud GPUs

  • https://vast.ai/ claims to reduce GPU costs by factor 3-5 as they don´t offer their own infrastructure but allow you to rent GPU resources on other people’s computers. The concept seems very interesting, but there are also critical voices.

More details Yet to Come…

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