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AdityaGovardhan
AdityaGovardhan

Reputation: 103

Google Colab: playground mode vs "normal mode"

When a person shares a Google Colab notebook with me, it is opened in playground mode and it shows a button for "Copy to Drive", on clicking this it opens another window with same code which I call the "normal mode".

Playground mode has Tesla P4 GPUs while "normal mode" has Tesla T4 GPUs, which I found after hours of debugging and there is no mention of this in the references I came across. Why is there a difference between these two modes?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1072

Answers (1)

Bob Smith
Bob Smith

Reputation: 38619

The GPU type isn't guaranteed or related to any particular mode. Quoting from the Colab FAQ:

Colab is able to provide free resources in part by having dynamic usage limits that sometimes fluctuate, and by not providing guaranteed or unlimited resources. This means that overall usage limits as well as idle timeout periods, maximum VM lifetime, GPU types available, and other factors vary over time. Colab does not publish these limits, in part because they can (and sometimes do) vary quickly.

If you're interested in priority access to the fastest GPU types, you might consider subscribing to Colab Pro.

Upvotes: 1

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