Costs for MS AI

In a production environment one will want to retrain the model when new data have been added. For the case at hand, emails and other new documents will be added while using the DMS, and thereby new documents and metadata can be used for training.

In production one would like to use a server for this. The problem is that servers usually don't have graphic cards to do the learning. Virtual Windows servers can be rented for 25-50 euro a month, and I one would like to find an AI solution for an amount in the same range.

So what can one do?

• A top of the class NVIDIA DGX-1 with Tesla V100 costs 150.000 euro, and offers a 1000 TFlops performance.
• Windows Azure seems to offer a reasonable solution for about 100 euro/month. The  machine-learning-studio S1-tier includes 100,000 API transactions and 25 API compute hours.
• LeaderGPU offers servers with GPUs that starts with 365 euro/pm (2x1080GTX)

Nvidia changed the EULA: Geforce cards are no longer allowed in datacenters.

Nvidia Lowers DGX Station Pricing