Google Colaboratory: misleading information about its GPU (only 5% RAM available to some users)
update: this question is related to Google Colab's "Notebook settings: Hardware accelerator: GPU". This question was written before the "TPU" option was added. Reading multiple excited announcements about Google Colaboratory providing free Tesla K80 GPU, I tried to run fast.ai lesson on it for it to never complete - quickly running out of memory. I started investigating of why. The bottom line is that “free Tesla K80” is not "free" for all - for some only a small slice of it is "free". I connect to Google Colab from West Coast Canada and I get only 0.5GB of what supposed to be a 24GB GPU RAM.