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To start with training we recommend to use the our HPC clusters which provide enough computing power and access to GPU. The prerequisites are following:

1. Active account on PLGrid Portal. To create an account see the official guide available in English and Polish.
2. Apply for an computing grantComputing grant on PLGrid Infrastructure. The resources needed for training are highly depended on the size of a training dataset. For a dataset of about 10⁴ samples a single training session lasts about 10 minutes on a single GPU for models like GPD or PhaseNet. Please keep in mind that fine tuning of the model hyper-parameters usually requires tu run training sessions multiple times. Therefore applying for a grant, please use this numbers only as a starting point.
   We recommend to apply for resources on a cluster Athena or Ares, but it is possible to run the training on other clusters as well. Please apply for the CPU and GPU computing time, as the GPU significantly accelerates the training process.

Acknowledgements

The development of the EPOS AI platform and its integration with the EPISODES Platform was partially funded by the EPOS-PL+ project (No POIR.04.02.00-00-C005/19-00), co-financed by the European Union from the funds of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

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