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Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
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Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay

Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Bioinformatics based on applied GPU computing in Computational Biology at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India. Since 2014, he developed a keen interest in GPU computing, and used CUDA for his master's thesis. He has experience as a systems administrator as well, particularly on the Linux platform. Avimanyu is also a scientific writer, technology communicator, and a passionate gamer. He has published technical writing on open source computing and has actively participated in NVIDIA's GPU computing conferences since 2016. A big-time Linux fan, he strongly believes in the significance of Linux and an open source approach in scientific research. Deep learning with GPUs is his new passion!
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Cloud containers

Unlike local containers, cloud containers are available on the server side that can be remotely accessed from anywhere. Physical maintenance costs are heavily reduced in such scenarios.

One great example of cloud based containerization is Google Colaboratory (Colab) that allows execution of Linux Terminal commands, in addition to Python-based development and testing on Jupyter notebooks. For a brief overview on Jupyter Notebook and Jupyter Lab, please refer to Chapter 5, Setting Up Your Environment for GPU Programming.

The GitHub page for Colab's backend container can be found at https://github.com/googlecolab/backend-container.

Our primary focus in this section is Google Colab on the cloud, specifically because, since April 2019, it offers free access to an NVIDIA Tesla T4 Tensor Core GPU for AI inference! It is actually a card that belongs to the Turing...

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Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay

Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Bioinformatics based on applied GPU computing in Computational Biology at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India. Since 2014, he developed a keen interest in GPU computing, and used CUDA for his master's thesis. He has experience as a systems administrator as well, particularly on the Linux platform. Avimanyu is also a scientific writer, technology communicator, and a passionate gamer. He has published technical writing on open source computing and has actively participated in NVIDIA's GPU computing conferences since 2016. A big-time Linux fan, he strongly believes in the significance of Linux and an open source approach in scientific research. Deep learning with GPUs is his new passion!
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