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Is there any limitations for google colab other than the session timeout after 12 hours?

one of the limitations is that we can get only 12 continuous hours per session. Is there any limitations for the usage for GPU and TPU?

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Vineetha Vijayan Avatar asked Jan 17 '20 08:01

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From Colab's documentation,

In order to be able to offer computational resources for free, Colab needs to maintain the flexibility to adjust usage limits and hardware availability on the fly. Resources available in Colab vary over time to accommodate fluctuations in demand, as well as to accommodate overall growth and other factors.

In a nutshell, Colab has dynamic resource provisioning. So they can change the hardware, it it is being taxed too much automatically. Google giveth and Google taketh away.

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Anshuman Kumar Avatar answered Oct 18 '22 15:10

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