Table of contents:

• Starting out with Colab
• Change Runtime Settings
• Storing Notebooks
• Uploading Notebooks

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/

(2). Open a Python 3 Notebook.

Change Runtime Settings

(1). Go to Runtime > Change Runtime time.

(2). Here, the options exit to change the Python runtime and harware accelerator to a GPU or TPU.

Storing Notebooks

1. Notebooks on Colab are stored on Google Drive.
2. Notebooks can also be saved to Github or as a Github Gist.
3. They can be downloaded to the local machine.

Uploading Notebooks

Notebooks can be uploaded from Google Drive, Github or the local machine.