{
  "id": 666531,
  "title": "What are the total hours available during the competition? ",
  "url": "/competitions/csiro-biomass/discussion/666531",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2026-01-07T16:07:06.422300900Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 3,
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  "content": "<p>Hi all, I know that the max running time for a notebook is 9 hours.\nSo, what is the total time available for the competition?\nAre saving the files and submissions consumes from the total competition time or only the sessions?</p>\n<p>Thank you.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "3387787",
      "postDate": "01/07/2026 16:07:06",
      "content": "<p>Hi all, I know that the max running time for a notebook is 9 hours.\nSo, what is the total time available for the competition?\nAre saving the files and submissions consumes from the total competition time or only the sessions?</p>\n<p>Thank you.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi all, I know that the max running time for a notebook is 9 hours.\nSo, what is the total time available for the competition?\nAre saving the files and submissions consumes from the total competition time or only the sessions?\n\nThank you.",
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    {
      "id": "3388035",
      "postDate": "01/08/2026 02:31:09",
      "content": "<p>You may run 5 submissions per day for the 3 months if you had start the competition at the very beginning.  A single notebook submission must run in less than 9 hours.  </p>\n<p>There are the quotas for amount of GPU time you can use per week.  If your only using kaggle for your compute this is the critical path restriction.</p>\n<p>Does that answer your question?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "You may run 5 submissions per day for the 3 months if you had start the competition at the very beginning.  A single notebook submission must run in less than 9 hours.  \n\nThere are the quotas for amount of GPU time you can use per week.  If your only using kaggle for your compute this is the critical path restriction.\n\nDoes that answer your question?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3388108",
      "postDate": "01/08/2026 07:57:52",
      "content": "<p>Hi PC Jimmmy. I started it late but I train my models in my local device. But when saving or submit a prediction it take a time during saving and during the submission.\nMoreover, I don't know the weekly amount of GPU time in Kaggle because I am new on it. So, please mention it.</p>\n<p>As I understand from your reply, the submission and saving consumes from the GPU quotas. Am I right?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi PC Jimmmy. I started it late but I train my models in my local device. But when saving or submit a prediction it take a time during saving and during the submission.\nMoreover, I don't know the weekly amount of GPU time in Kaggle because I am new on it. So, please mention it.\n\nAs I understand from your reply, the submission and saving consumes from the GPU quotas. Am I right?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3388195",
      "postDate": "01/08/2026 11:52:09",
      "content": "<p>The GPU quota is 30h per week, you can see how much you've used when you turn on GPU in a notebook. Saving a notebook does consume GPU quota, but submitting it to the competition does not.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The GPU quota is 30h per week, you can see how much you've used when you turn on GPU in a notebook. Saving a notebook does consume GPU quota, but submitting it to the competition does not.",
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    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3388035,
      "author_name": "pcjimmmy",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/08/2026 02:31:09",
      "content": "<p>You may run 5 submissions per day for the 3 months if you had start the competition at the very beginning.  A single notebook submission must run in less than 9 hours.  </p>\n<p>There are the quotas for amount of GPU time you can use per week.  If your only using kaggle for your compute this is the critical path restriction.</p>\n<p>Does that answer your question?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3388108,
          "author_name": "dotahmed",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "01/08/2026 07:57:52",
          "content": "<p>Hi PC Jimmmy. I started it late but I train my models in my local device. But when saving or submit a prediction it take a time during saving and during the submission.\nMoreover, I don't know the weekly amount of GPU time in Kaggle because I am new on it. So, please mention it.</p>\n<p>As I understand from your reply, the submission and saving consumes from the GPU quotas. Am I right?</p>",
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          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 3388195,
              "author_name": "tennogh",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "01/08/2026 11:52:09",
              "content": "<p>The GPU quota is 30h per week, you can see how much you've used when you turn on GPU in a notebook. Saving a notebook does consume GPU quota, but submitting it to the competition does not.</p>",
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    "3387787": "Hi all, I know that the max running time for a notebook is 9 hours.\nSo, what is the total time available for the competition?\nAre saving the files and submissions consumes from the total competition time or only the sessions?\n\nThank you.",
    "3388035": "You may run 5 submissions per day for the 3 months if you had start the competition at the very beginning.  A single notebook submission must run in less than 9 hours.  \n\nThere are the quotas for amount of GPU time you can use per week.  If your only using kaggle for your compute this is the critical path restriction.\n\nDoes that answer your question?",
    "3388108": "Hi PC Jimmmy. I started it late but I train my models in my local device. But when saving or submit a prediction it take a time during saving and during the submission.\nMoreover, I don't know the weekly amount of GPU time in Kaggle because I am new on it. So, please mention it.\n\nAs I understand from your reply, the submission and saving consumes from the GPU quotas. Am I right?",
    "3388195": "The GPU quota is 30h per week, you can see how much you've used when you turn on GPU in a notebook. Saving a notebook does consume GPU quota, but submitting it to the competition does not."
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