I am using google free trial of $300. Recently tried to launch a GPU instance as per this.
I have configured the right region. But the message is "Quota 'NVIDIA_K80_GPUS' exceeded. Limit: 0.0". Does this mean that GPU is not available in free trial? Or is it somekind of error from gcp.
By default the quota is zero for every one. One need to request for additional quota if he needs to increase the GPU. This form is only available if we upgrade our account. In the increase quota form it says "Please note that projects using free trial credits are not eligible for quota increases until the free trial period has ended."
Update
The google GPU is no more in beta and is shown available in free trial.But you can't start the machine in free trial mode as the quota is 0.
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While attempting to start up compute instances in us-east1-b, we're repeatedly but intermittently getting an error code ZONE_RESOURCE_POOL_EXHAUxSTED_WITH_DETAILS which google's documentation indicates is due to lack of resource availability. We used to be able to fill our CPU quota, but now only a small fraction are available at any given point. Other regions allowed us to start new instances and we are nowhere near any of our project quotas, so it seems that Google itself doesn't have the resources available to allocate in this zone - but we're wondering if other projects are also hitting the same issues to confirm.
It may occur at some point with other Projects in time where there is a spike in demand for such machines in a region.
Google Cloud Platform also offer a feature called reservations that provides a very high level of assurance in obtaining capacity on Google Cloud Platform.
Here's what's said about Google Compute Engine free tier here
But in the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator I don't see anything what says about free tier when adding an estimate for an instance with such parameters:
So is there any real free tier for Compute Engine or not?
They haven't updated their calculator, if you pick their older f1-micro you'll see a checkbox to "Include Always Free usage in my estimate." The f1-micro is no longer free since August 31st, 2021, and the e2-micro free tier was introduced on August 1st, 2021.
Yes the free tier is as you posted for compute engine. That is the cost for that particular setup, however your free tier credits will be deducted from that price so you will end up paying nothing. Note do not set it to 30GB when creating your disk, set it a bit less, like 28GB to avoid getting charged. Also note that static IP address are not included in the free tier.
I am a google cloud user which created a cloud HPC system. The web application is really consuming in terms of hardware resources [it's quite common that I have 4/5 N1 instances allocated with 96 cores each for a total of more than 400 cores].
I found that currently in certain zones it's possible to use N2D and C2 instances which are higher in terms of CPU the first ones and dedicated to the computing the latter. Unluckily I can't use these two instances because, for some reason, I have troubles increasing the quota N2D_CPUS and C2_CPUS above the default value of 24 [which is nothing considering my needs].
Can anyone help me?
The only way to increase the quota is to submit a Quota Increase request. Once you submit the request, you should receive an email saying that the request has been submitted and that it is being reviewed.
I'm unable to understand the free bandwidth/traffic allowed in per Google Compute engine instance. I'm using digitalocean and here with every server it provides free bandwidth/transfer e.g with $ 0.015- 1GB/1CPU and 2TB of Transfer is allowed.
Hence is there any free bandwidth per compute instance or google will charge for every bit transferred to/from VM.
As documented on our Network Pricing page, traffic prices depend on the source and destination. There is no "bucket of bits up til x GB" that are free like a cellphone plan or something. Rather certain types of traffic are always free, and other types are charged. For example, anything coming in from the internet. Or, anything to another VM in the same zone (using internal IPs).
If you are in Free Trial, then of course we give you usage credits, so you can use up to that total amount, in dollars, "for free."
I've been using GCE for several weeks with free credits and have repeatedly found that the quota values keep changing. The default CPU quota is 24 per region, but, depending on what other APIs I enable and in what order, that can silently change to 2 or 8. And today when I went to use it the CPU quota had again changed from 24 to 2 even though I hadn't changed what APIs were enabled. Disabling then re-enabling Compute Engine put the quota back to 24, but that is not a very satisfactory solution. This seems to be a bug to me. Anyone else have this problem and perhaps a solution? I know about the quota increase request form, but it says that if I request an increase than that is the end of my free credits.
Free trial in GCE has some limitation as only 2 concurrent cores at a time, so if for some reason you were able to change it to 24 cores, it's expected that it will be back at 2 cores.