

SIMPLEPOD CHEAPER AND FASTER THAN RUNPOD

Now we fully support SimplePod as well please use this link to register : https://simplepod.ai/ref?user=secourses

SimplePod is faster and cheaper than RunPod and works exactly same

Please use this template on SimplePod : https://dash.simplepod.ai/account/explore/100/ref-secourses/

For permanent storage, generate it from Storage tab with any name and size you want and when selecting template with above link, click Edit and Use, select Persistence Volume and change mount point to /workspace

Up-to-date SimplePod tutorial starting from 21:51 : https://youtu.be/yOj9PYq3XYM?si=Z86wZZLBeYzWo1Qo&t=1311

RUNPOD

Please register for RunPod at: https://get.runpod.io/955rkuppqv4h

Example tutorial for learn how to install and use RunPod is below

(starts at 22:03) : https://youtu.be/KW-MHmoNcqo?si=QN8X8Sjn13ZYu-EU&t=1323

RunPod permanent network storage tutorial : https://youtu.be/8Qf4x3-DFf4

Select this template mandatory (based on official Runpod Pytorch template) : https://get.runpod.io/SECourses_CU13

You can edit template and change Volume Disk size. it is by default 200 GB

Upload all files into workspace extract all from zip file or directly upload extracted files

Add expose HTTP ports 8675 - this is important we gonna use runpod proxy to connect

Upload everything into workspace folder - you can upload zip file and extract it as well

Start a new terminal

To install run below command

cd /workspace
export HF_HOME="/workspace"
chmod +x RunPod_Install_Trainer_AI_Toolkit.sh
./RunPod_Install_Trainer_AI_Toolkit.sh

To run the app again after installation later run below command - if port in use restart pod

export MODELS_PATH=/workspace/ai-tk-model-cache
export HF_HOME=/workspace/hf-cache
cd /workspace/ai-toolkit/ui
npm run start


if you stop and start pod again run below 1 time before above one

apt-get update
apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg
mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg
NODE_MAJOR=22
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_$NODE_MAJOR.x nodistro main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
apt-get update
apt-get install nodejs -y


runpod sleep command in 3 hours so you won't spend extra money - pod wont be deleted it is safe

sleep 10800 && runpodctl stop pod id_of_pod_replace_this

10800 = 3 * 60 * 60 seconds 

