R Deep Learning Essentials - Second Edition

Summary

We have covered a lot of options for training deep learning models in this chapter! We discussed options for running it locally and showed the importance of having a GPU card. We used the three main cloud providers to train deep learning models in R on the cloud. Cloud computing is a fantastic resource – we gave an example of a super-computer costing $149,000. A few years ago, such a resource would have been out of reach for practically everyone, but now thanks to cloud computing, you can rent a machine like this on an hourly basis.

For AWS, Azure, and Paperspace, we installed MXNet on the cloud resources, giving us the option of which deep learning library to use. I encourage you to use the examples in the other chapters in this ...