Preliminary
You should have been provided with Paperspace credits - these will allow you to spawn paid instances with better GPUs than what colab or paperspace offer on their free-tier. Additionally, unless you enable auto-shutdown, these instances will stay awake permanently, and not abort half-way through training.
Instance Setup
Once you have signed up for Paperspace's gradient platform and applied your coupon:
Go to console.paperspace.com and create a under the "ICL Deep Learning 2023" team (selected at top left)
Create a notebook within that project. We recommend using the PyTorch 1.10 GPU runtime
Select a machine - you can use the free-tier CPU or GPU machines for most of the coursework questions, but when training your models we recommend using a paid P4000 instance. Choose your auto-shutdown period carefully, base on the network's training time, and whether you will need to go AFK
You can directly connect the instance to your gitlab repository by