Rapids take >42 minutes to install on google colab pro.

[priyanshu7401]

Hi all, I have been trying to use the rapids library in my project but rapids take close to 42 minutes to installation. If my notebooks get disconnected or I change the runtime type, I have to install it again, is there any better solution to this problem? Regards

[shwina]

Hi @priyanshu7401 - thanks for reporting, and sorry for the trouble you've been having with Colab.

Please note that because Colab does not support Python 3.8+, we can not support RAPIDS on Colab at this time. The last version of RAPIDS that should work with Colab is 21.12, and that is too old for us to test and maintain. If you are using the demo notebook provided at https://rapids.ai/start.html to install RAPIDS on Colab, we cannot guarantee that it will work. I apologize.

If/when Colab supports newer versions of Python, you should be able to run RAPIDS on it.

Generally speaking though, when installing RAPIDS via conda, the dependency resolver can take a while to run. In our experience, mamba is much faster. (I understand that this information may not be very useful to you right now).

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[vyasr]

This should no longer be an issue, see https://colab.google/articles/cudf