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My PC is rocking a 2080TI so I don't really need the GPU computation of Google Colab, but I do find it a nice development environment (in comparison to jupyter notebooks) and I like the fact that I can access my files from anywhere, so, is it possible to use Google Colab but let my local pc do the computation?
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Kindly copy the entire URL that starts with http://localhost ahead for the next step. In your Google Colab notebook, click on the toggle button at the top right corner showing the RAM and Disk status bar and select the option "Connect a local runtime" as seen in the screenshots below.
Yes, Google Colab allows you to heist their low-level GPU for you to run on your local machine and yes, it is still FREE! Also, you can use your local environment in the notebook, which is a definite plus.
When you are using Google Colab, you aren't running locally but on the cloud servers of Google which is linked with Google drive. So you have to upload files there to run environment on servers such as GPU and TPU with allotted memory. You as local machine just a medium to connect to those servers with internet.
Yes, there is an option to use Local GPU if you want. There is an option called Connect where you can select "Connect to local runtime" @segfault404 can you please elaborate on how to do that? Open Google Collab, click at the dropdown near "Connect" option and select "Connect to local runtime" .
Steps:
Go to Google colab and click on connect to local runtime, a pop-up comes.
Go to your terminal and execute:
jupyter notebook --NotebookApp.allow_origin='https://colab.research.google.com' --port=8888 --NotebookApp.port_retries=0
If this shows error:
ERROR: the notebook server could not be started because port 8888 is not available.
Then run the following to basically kill any process using it or use another port:
lsof -wni tcp:8888kill -9 <JOB_ID>If successful, then the command gives a link:
For example:
http://localhost:8888/?token=bb80b05aef71999353fe4715e0f06be40d22911648dbdcd6
Copy it in the pop-up in the colab and you are set to go.
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