NVIDIA Tesla P4 not available in us-west1-b for Google Cloud

[diliptmonson]

In the fast ai setup guide for GCP, https://course.fast.ai/start_gcp.html

it was recommended to use us-west1-b. However Nvidia Tesla P4 is not available in this instance and is available in us-central1-a.

Further, in instance creation code, Nvidia tesla p100 was provided in config which has a much higher budget ($0.43 per hour vs $0.26 per hour).

Hence request to change the instance creation configuration in Step 3 ( https://course.fast.ai/start_gcp.html#step-3-create-an-instance ) to the following:

export IMAGE_FAMILY="pytorch-latest-gpu" # or "pytorch-latest-cpu" for non-GPU instances
export ZONE="us-central1-a"
export INSTANCE_NAME="my-fastai-instance"
export INSTANCE_TYPE="n1-highmem-8" # budget: "n1-highmem-4"

# budget: 'type=nvidia-tesla-k80,count=1'
gcloud compute instances create $INSTANCE_NAME
--zone=$ZONE
--image-family=$IMAGE_FAMILY
--image-project=deeplearning-platform-release
--maintenance-policy=TERMINATE
--accelerator="type=nvidia-tesla-p4,count=1"
--machine-type=$INSTANCE_TYPE
--boot-disk-size=200GB
--metadata="install-nvidia-driver=True"
--preemptible