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skypilotucb OP t1_iwvqqgj wrote

Reply to comment by Fast-for-a-starfish in [P] SkyPilot: ML on any cloud with massive cost savings by skypilotucb

Thanks for your question! Training BERT with SkyPilot's managed spot feature cost $18.4 and took 21 hours. Running the same job with on-demand AWS instances cost $61.2 (>3x more) and took 20 hours.

Note that both jobs were run on the same GPU (V100) and the cost and time taken by SkyPilot includes the data transfer costs for moving checkpoints and all overheads associated with restarting jobs.

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