Running a python script on Google Cloud Compute Engine

Question

For a machine learning task at school I wrote my own MLP network. The data set is quite big, and training takes forever. I was alerted to the option of running my script on

Answer 1

You can use Google Cloud Platform tutorials itself and is very simple to follow. Links are given below

Setting up Python

https://cloud.google.com/python/setup

Getting started

https://cloud.google.com/python/getting-started/hello-world

Please note that you don't have any free tier to run Python 3.x, Standard environment with free tier only supports Python 2.x.

Edit: As per the latest update Python 3.x is default in standard environment