Free AWS compute instances for teams wanting to try deep learning

Hello all, my company has a bunch of AWS credits that expire in October and we simply don’t know what to do with them, so we are offering free instances for those wanting to play around with deep learning (as that is what we do).

Requirements:

Submit a project proposal (think about it like writing a research grant). If we like your idea (and we probably will), we’ll flip on a p2 instance for you to get your hands dirty.

Can vouch for this guy. Also, if anyone wants any help setting up an environment and getting started with deep learning, I’d be happy to help out.

Oh man! We have so many students that just don’t have access to computing power, or just flat out have hardware so old certain stuff fails to install (anyone here still have a laptop with a 2005/2006 core 2 duo and 4 gigs of ram?)

Definitely taking you up on your offer so I don’t have to leave my gaming rig on for several days to figure out if our techniques are working.

Going to add that this is a first come, first serve basis. Amazon only allows us a specific amount of p2 instances as they are a hot commodity in the machine learning field. We would prefer students, or a group with at least one student on it, as this is meant to eliminate the barrier of needing expensive hardware to get into the field of deep learning. With that in mind, students get selection priority.

Where should we submit our proposals?

Here if you want them to be public, or you can send me a private message. Doesn’t matter to me. I can donate 4 more instances, I have already donated 4.

There are 2 instances remaining.