Working with Google Colaboratory
Table of contents:
Google Colaboratory more commonly referred to as “Google Colab” or just simply “Colab” is a research project for prototyping Machine learning models on powerful hardware options such as GPUs and TPUs. It is a serverless Jupyter notebook environment.
Starting out with Colab
(1). Go to https://colab.research.google.com/
![Colab Home.](/assets/ieee_ompi/colab_home.png)
(2). Open a Python 3 Notebook.
![Python 3 Notebook.](/assets/ieee_ompi/python3_notebook.png)
Change Runtime Settings
(1). Go to Runtime > Change Runtime time.
![Colab Runtime.](/assets/ieee_ompi/colab_runtime.png)
(2). Here, the options exit to change the Python runtime and harware accelerator to a GPU or TPU.
![Change Runtime.](/assets/ieee_ompi/change_runtime.png)
Storing Notebooks
- Notebooks on Colab are stored on Google Drive.
- Notebooks can also be saved to Github or as a Github Gist.
- They can be downloaded to the local machine.
![Storing Notebooks.](/assets/ieee_ompi/storing_notebooks.png)
Uploading Notebooks
Notebooks can be uploaded from Google Drive, Github or the local machine.
![Opening Notebooks.](/assets/ieee_ompi/opening_notebooks.png)