Yeah the file system on those VMs is really slow

obviously 🙂

you're not going to get the same performance as you would from your own dual xeon with 128gb of ram etc 🙂

honestly.. I think google are "fine" with it.. there are plenty of other (more egregious) abuses of their colab and they haven't screamed yet.

Thanks. Neat trick. I wonder what Google thinks of it?

Shameless plug here ; https://clear.ml/blog/jupyter-notebooks-used-as-clearml-workers/

this whole area is a WIP of course, but I am trying to capture some of the really interesting Q and A from here so that they don't jst disappear into the void 🙂

Sure thing. All you need is the credentials. Did you see my extreme example here? https://youtu.be/qz9x7fTQZZ8