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The Poor Man's Guide to Cloud GPU Selection

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The Poor Man's Guide to Cloud GPU Selection

I wrote an article about a cloud GPU selection technique that would maximize FLOPs per $. Taking the pre-training of LLMs as an example, it shows how the cost-optimal GPU changes depending on the computational intensity (∝ model size x batch size).

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