Thanks. Neat trick. I wonder what Google thinks of it?
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.
Yeah the file system on those VMs is really slow
Sure thing. All you need is the credentials. Did you see my extreme example here? https://youtu.be/qz9x7fTQZZ8
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 🙂
you're not going to get the same performance as you would from your own dual xeon with 128gb of ram etc 🙂