Just sharing my feedback so far on GCP. The first few times I used it everything ran smoothly. This morning, I cannot start the VM because “The zone {…us-west1-b} does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.”
My availability’s been down for 30 min and I’ve seen 3 hours downtime for preemptibles on online forums.
I’ve run into the same thing on other providers. So in this case I just wanted to share that I’m glad to have a second instance set up that I can switch to when resources aren’t available. Currently have 1 GCP and 1 Paperspace. You could also have 2 GCPs in different regions.
I have now checked 5 different zones, with or without --preemptible, p100 and v100.
I can create p4 instances, but not the better ones
Is it possible that there are restrictions on those, like you have to apply for limit increases in aws for p2.xl etc. first?! If yes, what do I have to do to get access to these GPUs? The docs just say there is a limit of 1 gpu (quotas page), but no restriciton on gpu type?!
I’ve got a p100 VM in europe-west1-d that I’m currently using, so I don’t think there are restrictions. I’ve created it on Tuesday morning right after the live course. Hope they will solve the congestion problem soon.
Try doing it thru the GUI - it’ll make sure you don’t pick GPU types that aren’t available in that zone. Or check the GCP docs that also have availability tables.
Mark, you might want to check a few things in that case.
First thing is that not all GPUs are available in all region/zones. Make sure you’re requesting GPUs on a region that has it available. (You can check the listing here https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/gpus/ )
Another thing to think about is that, it’s usually the pre-emptible instances itself that are not available, not necessarily the GPU, because the GPU is a ‘guest accelerator’ attachment to the instance.
So, just switch the instance type to something else like n1-standard-4/n1-standard-8/n1-standard-16 or even the highmem / highcpu varieties. ( Listing here https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types)
In short
make sure your region/zone provides the GPU you’re requesting
try switching the instance type if not available
try switching the zone/region itself
try switching the gpu type (since they’re all using tesla 396 drivers, should work fine with the same standard fastai image)
I’m pretty sure you’ll find a pre-emptible instance available with the combinations above. Good luck !
Like jeremy also mentioned above, you’re requesting P100 from us-west2-b, which is not available at all. As you can see below, P100 is only available in zone 1 in us-west. Hope that clarifies.
Aahh, sorry for being so stupid. I didn’ realize they were available only selectively. But it was also bad luck, because as I said above, I tried in 6! different zones incl. Europe but managed to by chance only take those that didn’t have p100s
Now at least I get a different error message (not available!)
The zone 'projects/xxxxx/zones/us-west1-a' does not have enough resources available to fulfill the request. Try a different zone, or try again later.
Hi guys! Sorry if this has been asked already yet I searched the forum for the subject with no success. Trying to create GCP account I found out there is no way of setting up individual (non business) account for European location (Belarus if being precise). Official support states that in Russia the service shouldn’t be used at all if no potential economic benefit is expected from the usage. This is all a bit confusing since I just don’t have individual account option even though I’m not in Russia, but neither do I intend to use GCP for business purposes. Can anyone suggest? Thanks!
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I was going through the same problem, the idea here is to atleast try 3 - 4 times in the same region. I try in europe-west1-b and have got it all the time after trying 3 - 4 times.
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