Hands-On High Performance with Go

Creating a VM with a GPU

We need to create a Google Compute Engine instance in order to be able to utilize GPUs on GCP.

You may need to increase your GPU quota. To do so, you can follow the steps at the following URL: https://cloud.google.com/compute/quotas#requesting_additional_quota

At the time of writing, the NVIDIA P4 GPU is the least expensive on the platform, and has ample power to demonstrate our work. You can verify your quota by checking the NVIDIA P4 GPUs metric on the IAM Admin quotas page:

To do this, we can visit the VM instances page on the Google Cloud console. A screenshot of this page follows. Click on the Create button in ...