cloud - How to request for GPU quota increase for Nvidia A100 (for AI Platform - Notebook)

Question

I am currently trying out GCP before deciding if I would go on a paid service. I am currently on the $300 free trial version.

With the Machine Learning work that I am currently doing, using a GPU with only 16GB VRAM is insufficient. I am thinking of trying out the Nvidia A100 GPU which gives 40GB of VRAM.

However, when I tried to request for an Nvidia A100 quota increase from 0 to 1, I keep getting the email which says “Unfortunately, we are unable to grant you additional quota at this time”.

Does anyone know what I need to do to get access to Nvidia A100? Have I been doing something wrong when requesting the quota increase for Nvidia A100?

Many thanks in advance if anyone knows this and could help.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65843064/how-to-request-for-gpu-quota-increase-for-nvidia-a100-for-ai-platform-noteboo

Answer 1

You can't use GPUs with the free tier of GCP.

See https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier

Your Free Trial credits apply to all Google Cloud resources, including Google Maps Platform usage, but with the following exceptions: You can't add GPUs to your VM instances.