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Unity Machine Learning Agents Cloud

Discussion in 'ML-Agents' started by GamerLordMat, Jan 9, 2022.

  1. GamerLordMat

    GamerLordMat

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    Hello,

    does anybody know when the Unity Machine Learning Agents Cloud will be accessible for private use? Is there a cost model yet? I cannot wait to have finally some preset cloud for that purpose.
    What is the catch in the use of the alpha version?

    Best regards
     
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  2. ChillX

    ChillX

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    Why not invest in just a single RTX 3060 TI 12 GB or 3090 24 GB card. I am running 4 X 3090 cards plus 2 X 3080 cards on a threadripper CPU. I initially bought these cards for rendering. If your not running AI training 24 X 7 like me then during downtime you could even run nicehash on the video cards to recover your cost over an year or so.
    Except for very casual low use Cloud GPU has always been super expensive. Check the pricing on various cloud render farms. I don't see how Unity can do it any cheaper.
    If your training anything no trivial you have to try many permutations of the training config settings to see what works best. Having multiple cards means I can evaluate multiple configs at the same time instead of having to spend weeks doing it one by one.
     
  3. GamerLordMat

    GamerLordMat

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    sorry old post, but Unity forum is badly made (where are my questions shown???).
    Yes, it is the question buying vs renting.
    in the time of your writing the RTX3090 cost like 1600 Euros. I am a student and dont have that much money. My PC is old so I cant just plugin in a new Graphics card like a "cheaper" RTX 3060 TI 12 GB. A rig I would find buy worthy would cost about 3000 Euros... so renting would be the only option if I need more power for a week or so