Feature Request: RunPod Support

[5hadytru]

Hi all; thanks for a coding up a frictionless tool! I banged my head on the wall for a long while trying to get Isaac Lab running on a RunPod instance, all to no avail. This was well motivated, though, as RunPod instances are as low as 1/10th the price of an Azure instance for an equivalent GPU + RAM combo.

Can we begin an initiative to add support for RunPod somehow? I would be happy to contribute, as this would save me a lot of money.

[jrmch12]

Development through research like-cloud gpu computing services — runpod, paperspace, lambda-labs, etc — would be ideal, due to their cheaper price and ease of use!

[5hadytru]

Yep ... from what I've seen on X, it seems like a lot of people are turning to other simulators simply cause getting Isaac Lab to run can be such a pain in the ass. Adding RunPod/Lambda/Hyperbolic support would be clutch; for example, you can rent a 4090 on RunPod for like $0.30 per hour, as opposed to renting an A10 on Azure for $2.30 per hour.

This does, however, go back to another issue I reported (isaac-sim/IsaacLab#2271) where the IsaacLab container does not build without UDP traffic enabled ... RunPod does not allow UDP traffic, even after I explained the situation to them

[TimPietrusky]

@5hadytru like i said in the linked issue: we are working on UPD support right now, so that issue is hopefully resolved soon. and then let's see what else is needed to make this work, we want to help out as well.