Nvidia H100's VMs are now available to start right away on Paperspace by DigitalOcean. Try it out by going to start an H100 VM. ⚡️

What you’ll have access to:

• Nvidia H100: Access H100 machines in either an H100x1 (single chip) or H100x8 (entire H100 host) configuration with everything working straight out of the box on the update ML in a Box VM template
• Faster Networking: By the end of January, all users on H100x8 configurations will have access to 3.2TB interconnect speeds for intense multi-node training runs

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Other Improvements

Simplified Container Registry Experience

• Redesign of the container registry experience to provide field validation/checks and enhanced management of existing private container registries
• New experience in adding containers into Gradient deployments to ensure successful deployment starts

Endpoint Security on Gradient Deployments

• When creating a deployment, you can choose whether to set the endpoint to public or protected. A protected endpoint is secured with basic access authentication encoded tokens
• When a user tries to access a protected endpoint they are required to supply a username/password

Improved Cloud Networking

• Internet access now supports sustained 2Gbps connectivity inbound and outbound per VM

Paperspace was recently acquired by DigitalOcean and there are already improvements to the Paperspace platform.

DigitalOcean Spaces in Notebooks

Paperspace's integration with DigitalOcean Spaces can now be added as an additional data source. With the integration of DigitalOcean Spaces into Notebooks, users can easily access and manipulate their DigitalOcean Spaces through the Notebook experience. Creating a new data source and entering in the Spaces URL is all that is required to read and write data to their DigitalOcean storage.

DigitalOcean SSO

We recently added the DigitalOcean SSO integration. This feature allows users to log in to Paperspace using their DigitalOcean SSO credentials. With this integration, it is easier to access products and computing capabilities across platforms.

Paperspace has been working to provide users with faster storage speeds, and we are excited to announce that NVMe storage is now available in NY2! VM and shared drive creates are now backed by NVMe when capacity is available, and you can expect read/write speeds to improve by as much as 2.5x compared to resources created before March 2023.

Over the last several months, we have also been rapidly expanding the cloud, specifically with Nvidia Ampere Series GPUs (A4000, A6000, A100). You can also join the waitlist to get early access to Nvidia H100 machines. Waitlist

Fixes & Improvements

• Gradient Deployments now have liveness and readiness health checks, so you can monitor the health of your containers. Learn more here.
• Fixed several architecture bugs related to shutting down notebooks, which will bring capacity back online faster for users.
• Deployment optimizations were made to more intelligently add and remove replicas when spec edits are submitted.
• The Core AMS region now has 10Gb internet uplinks.
• We updated our payment modal to better accommodate international users.

We improved Compute Limit management for team administrators.  Compute Limits assist teams in monitoring and restricting monthly compute spend by providing fine-grained control over compute usage.  You can now create and edit email alerts and absolute maxes for both teams and team members from the billing page.  Administrators will receive an email when an alert or max amount is reached, and users will be notified in-app if they are blocked from accruing additional compute.  We hope these changes will give administrators more insight and control over their monthly spend.

For more information about Compute Limits, please visit our documentation.

Fixes & Improvements

• Added the ability to edit team names
• Improved invoice clarity by adding a section to represent Gradient storage costs
• Improved visibility into Core machine status by more accurately rendering real-time machine state
• Fixed a bug where some users could not scroll on streaming Core machines
• Fixed a bug where non-US countries were not selectable during signup onboarding

We just published a two part blog on getting stable diffusion up and running with Gradient notebooks using Dreambooth. In part 1, we walk through each of the steps for creating a Dreambooth concept from scratch within a Gradient Notebook, generated novel images from inputted prompts, and showed how to export the concept as a model checkpoint. In part 2, we show how to train textual inversion for Stable Diffusion, and use it to generate samples that accurately represent the features of the training images using control over the prompt.

To make it easier for our free users to take advantage of the platform, we have also released the Stable Diffusion models as Public Datasets. These can be mounted in any Gradient Notebook, and removes the need to download the files from HuggingFace each time you restart the notebook. Furthermore, these files will not count toward the storage limits for Free GPU users, so they will no longer be limited by storage space. Be sure to try out the new process!

Deployments Autoscaling

We’ve added the ability to autoscale your Gradient deployments by adding scaling criteria to the spec document. You can autoscale the deployment based on specific metrics including CPU utilization, memory utilization and # of requests. Documentation on how to get started can be found here.

Additionally, the spec has been updated with an enabled flag both for the deployment as a whole and the autoscaling feature. This can be used to turn the deployment and feature on and off. Previously, you had to go into the spec and change the number of replicas to 0 to turn a deployment off.

Activity Log

To track autoscaling events, deployment updates, and deployment start/stops we also added an activity log which can be viewed from the Activity Log tab in the project view.

Fixes and Improvements

• Added email notifications for when Gradient Deployment do not properly get provisioned
• Updated the Nvidia RAPIDS container to RAPIDS 22.10
• Fixed a few documentation links in the console that were taking users to stale urls
• Upgraded our database to support enhanced metrics to track network and database performance
• Upgraded the Nvidia templates to support Nvidia 510 drivers
• Fixed a bug where deployments would sometimes get deleted when team compute limits were hit
• Fixed a bug that was preventing private S3 buckets from mounting in Gradient notebooks
• Improved the container caching process allowing more frequent updates to notebook runtimes

Over the past few weeks, we've shipped a number of improvements to improve your product experience.

• Improved private network performance and stability in AMS1: A major upgrade has been completed for the network infrastructure in AM1 resulting in increased performance and stability of the network.
• Improved reliability of machine starts: Starting machines will now encounter fewer issues due to improved automatic remediation of event errors.
• Improved availability of GPUs: Resolved an issue where specific machine types GPU availability were lower than expected.
• Prevent users from accidentally creating machines from deleted custom templates: There was an issue that allowed users to create machines from deleted templates resulting in inaccessible machines. Users will now see an error message if they try to create a machine from a deleted template.
• Improved management of inaccessible machines: Users can now shut down and deactivate machines that are inaccessible from the list views and details view.
• All new Linux machines have a dynamic public IP by default: A public IP is currently required to access a Linux machine except on a private network. By default, a newly created machine will have a dynamic public IP assigned.
• Improved summary of billing charges on machine create: We have improved the machine create billing summary to better reflect the total cost for creating and running a machine. Prices are broken down into monthly and active charges to differentiate the costs of running machines vs having machines active.
• Improved network performance and reliability: We’ve made a change to our QOS policy that now results in greater network availability and reliability for all machines.

We're excited to launch a partnership to bring new machine learning hardware to Paperspace!

Graphcore IPUs now available in Gradient! announcement 

As of today, Gradient Notebooks users can launch IPUs from Graphcore on Paperspace -- for free up to 6 hours!

Graphcore IPUs are specialty accelerated computing chips designed to maximize machine learning workloads. 

We're pleased to offer Graphcore's IPU-POD16 machine with 10GB of free storage. 

We've made it extremely easy to get started. Just head over to the Gradient console in Paperspace, create a new notebook, and select one of the new Graphcore runtimes.

Once in the notebook it's easy to start running code.

We've created three different runtimes to start -- including Hugging Face, PyTorch, and TensorFlow 2.

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For more information be sure to read the announcement! 

The hype around the internet for DALL-E 2 and DALL-E Mini has been building for weeks -- and now you can train your own DALL-E Mini model on a Gradient Notebook! 

Let's get into the updates.

DALL-E Mini runtime now live on Gradient! announcement 

We're excited to release a new runtime tile for DALL-E Mini. The runtime is based on JAX and makes it easy to create generative art on high-powered Paperspace GPUs.

To get started head over to the console, create a new notebook, select the DALL-E Mini tile and get going!

New ultra-powerful A4000 and A5000 GPUs now FREE on Gradient Growth plan! announcement 

As we continue to offer the best selection of cloud GPUs on the market we also continue to extend our lead in the number of unlimited instances we offer to Gradient subscribers.

We've just added A4000 and A5000 machines to the Gradient Growth plan, which means the list of free GPUs available on Growth is longer than ever.

Check out all the free GPUs available to Gradient subscribers below!

For more information, be sure to read the docs.

Updated PyTorch, TensorFlow, and RAPIDS runtimes announcement 

We also wanted to let you know that we've rolled out updated Notebook runtimes for PyTorch, TensorFlow, and RAPIDS. 

In the notebook console you'll now find 1-click runtime tiles for PyTorch 1.12, TensorFlow 2.9.1, and RAPIDS 20.6.

Is there another runtime you wish we'd support out of the box? Let us know!

New docs come to Paperspace! announcement 

We're excited to introduce an entirely new unified docs experience for Paperspace! 

After maintaining several different systems for documenting different parts of the product, we're eager to announce that Paperspace docs are now available in a single location with a new unified theme and organizational structure!

You can now find Core documentation, Gradient documentation, and general Account Management documentation all in one place!

If you need a place to start, we recommend starting with the Core overview or the Gradient overview -- you'll be able to launch right into tutorials, guides, and reference materials designed to help you succeed with Paperspace.

Have an idea for how to improve Paperspace documentation further? Please send us a note with any comments or suggestions!

We're excited to announce some brand new Core experiences! Let's jump right into what's new.

All-new Linux SSH experience announcement 

We've reconfigured the Linux machine create experience to optimize for connecting to Linux machines via SSH.

We feel that a direct connection to a Linux machine is a fantastic experience. We'll still support Linux VMs in the browser, but if you get a chance, give SSH a try -- it's so easy to connect!

Managing machines just got a lot better announcement 

We've also released a substantial cleanup of the machines settings page in Core which has made it easier than ever to access and manage machine settings. 

Let's say for example we wanted to create a snapshot of our new machine -- easy!

Or let's say we wanted to update our machine name and adjust the autoshutdown timer? Also easy!

We've also made it easier to do things like assign public IPs, generate templates, and more!

Redesigned account settings improvement

We've also updated the global Paperspace account settings to the latest design system standard. 

You'll now find tabs for Profile, Security, and SSH Keys and in general you should now find it easier to access these important settings.

Dynamic public IP addresses improvement 

• We added support for dynamic public IP addresses which provide public IP addresses at a bare minimum of cost

Capacity upgrades improvement 

Meanwhile, we've also been busy adding plenty of capacity to Paperspace datacenters.

• We onboarded a new fleet of RTX4000 machines to the CA1 region
• We dramatically expanded GPU compute capacity in the NY2 region
• We added nearly 100TB in shared storage across regions
• And don't worry, we didn't forget about Europe! New capacity is coming soon!

Bugfixes fix 

• We fixed a bug that was sometimes causing utilization graphs to display inaccurately