What do yo mean by “billed for as long as GPU is running, regrardless of being actively used”
Billing continues as long as an instance is running, even if the GPUs are idle like shown, below.
$ nvidia-smi
Wed Jan 10 21:52:26 2024
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 535.104.12 Driver Version: 535.104.12 CUDA Version: 12.2 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA A10 On | 00000000:07:00.0 Off | 0 |
| 0% 28C P8 8W / 150W | 4MiB / 23028MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=======================================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+