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Published on February 17, 2019 by Stephen Balaban

CPU, GPU, and I/O utilization monitoring using tmux, htop, iotop, and nvidia-smi. This stress test is running on a Lambda GPU Cloud 4x GPU instance. Often ...

Published on February 16, 2019 by Stephen Balaban

Update June 5th 2020: OpenAI has announced a successor to GPT-2 in a newly published paper. Checkout our GPT-3 model overview.

Published on February 11, 2019 by Chuan Li

Deep Learning requires GPUs, which are very expensive to rent in the cloud. In this post, we compare the cost of buying vs. renting a cloud GPU server. We use ...

Published on February 10, 2019 by Stephen Balaban

You were probably thinking that this was going to be a long post. You're in luck. All you need to do is to install Ubuntu 18.04 and then Lambda Stack. Here's ...

Published on February 10, 2019 by Stephen Balaban

Or, how Lambda Stack + Lambda Stack Dockerfiles = GPU accelerated deep learning containers

Published on February 8, 2019 by Chuan Li

This tutorial is about making a character-based text generator using a simple two-layer LSTM. It will walk you through the data preparation and the network ...

Published on February 6, 2019 by Chuan Li

BERT is Google's pre-training language representations which obtained the state-of-the-art results on a wide range of Natural Language Processing tasks. ...

Published on January 25, 2019 by Stephen Balaban

These slides are from my talk at Rework Deep Learning Summit 2019.

Published on January 15, 2019 by Chuan Li

Last, tyear, Fast.ai won the first ImageNet training cost challenge as part of the DAWN benchmark. Their customized ResNet50 takes 3.27 hours to reach 93% ...

Published on January 7, 2019 by Chuan Li

DAWNBench recently updated its leaderboard. Among the impressive entries from top-class research institutes and AI Startups, perhaps the biggest leap was ...

Published on January 6, 2019 by Chuan Li

Object Detection using Single Shot MultiBox Detector The problem The task of object detection is to identify "what" objects are inside of an image and "where" ...

Published on December 26, 2018 by Michael Balaban

Titan RTX vs. 2080 Ti vs. 1080 Ti vs. Titan Xp vs. Titan V vs. Tesla V100. For this post, Lambda engineers benchmarked the Titan RTX's deep learning ...

Published on November 28, 2018 by Stephen Balaban

Lambda is a diamond sponsor this year at NeurIPS. (The conference recently changed its name from NIPS to NeurIPS.) We have three extra registrations for the ...

Published on November 28, 2018 by Stephen Balaban

I'm not a human. Or at least that's what Google thought when I failed to fill out the reCAPTCHA properly for the third time. What exactly qualifies as a ...

Published on November 6, 2018 by Stephen Balaban

Many deep learning teams have software that depends on Ubuntu 16.04 (and not 18.04). However, the installation process for 16.04 has some quirks with the ...