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[#] Tue Apr 11 2023 11:49:30 EDT from darknetuser

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2023-04-10 18:49 from zelgomer
Why can't you lazy bums just shave with a razor? Is it really so much

trouble to just drag a piece of metal across your face?



Real men have their horses kiss their beard off (because a horse's idea of a kiss involves intensive use of teeth).

[#] Tue Apr 11 2023 12:17:51 EDT from Nurb432

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Real men dont shave :) 



[#] Tue Apr 11 2023 12:33:16 EDT from darknetuser

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2023-04-11 12:17 from Nurb432
Real men dont shave :) 


Exactly. They have the horses do it for them XD :P

Now seriously, when I shave I confuse my horses. They try to grab my beard and get sad because it is not there.

Incidentaly, I have a picture of one of my darlings as a desktop wallpaper here and you made me miss them all so much.

[#] Sat Apr 22 2023 12:32:00 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Man, wish i had a couple of A100s....

What's an A100? A search says maybe it's a graphics card? Or a van from the 1970's :)

Oh, I see ... people are using Nvidia A100 as high-density compute for "AI" workloads.

I have to admit I don't really understand the whole "compute on GPU" thing.
What is it about a graphics coprocessor that couldn't be done better by some sort of high-density main CPU?

[#] Sat Apr 22 2023 12:51:11 EDT from Nurb432

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Tho i have called them video cards a few times, technically they are not. No video ports or support to produce video. Only GPU.

Found some lower end referb 24gb titans for a really decent price.. but i dont think my motherboard can handle them, and im not going to start spending more on motherboards and stuff too.  hobby is not worth that much to me.. Already spent more than i should have. 

Reason it works so well is not that its a 'graphics processor' its a parallel targeted compute module that does math really fast, on several thousand cores. Just happens to also do well for computing graphics too, so was used in them traditionally.. It wont do well with general stuff and moving bits around, but just doing general math, yes.

 

Quick comparison of what i have, running for stable diffusion ( images ) 

  • Xeon 12 core. Takes 35 minutes. 
  • Add a 4gb video card to the mix and it drops it to 3 minutes
  • Swapped it out with an older 12gb video card. Now its 15 seconds. 
I wold imagine a 24 gb card would not do too much for images. I think i hit the sweet spot. However, for Chat bot style processing, it depends on the size of the model. If it can all fit it into vram, then it flies and can type faster than i can .. if not, it might take a minute or two to process.  No GPU, could take 15..  So adding more vram would still help as i could use larger models and keep the speed up.
 
A100's have 80gb and tons more compute units..
 
Of course ASIC devices like NPU/TPU will eventually eat into the GPU superiority.  Much like they did for crypto. Once you move to a device that is specifically designed to do one thing, prices drop, performance increases.  I have a couple of those and they are scary fast, for what they are designed for.

 

Sat Apr 22 2023 12:32:00 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
Man, wish i had a couple of A100s....

What's an A100? A search says maybe it's a graphics card? Or a van from the 1970's :)

Oh, I see ... people are using Nvidia A100 as high-density compute for "AI" workloads.

I have to admit I don't really understand the whole "compute on GPU" thing.
What is it about a graphics coprocessor that couldn't be done better by some sort of high-density main CPU?

 



[#] Sun Apr 23 2023 15:22:31 EDT from Nurb432

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unsure the details yet but a friend of mine just came home with 3 fairly new 3D printers "i found these in the trash"

That is like stories of people seeing Altairs and such on the curb for trash day..   i never see stuff like that.



[#] Tue Apr 25 2023 10:28:48 EDT from Nurb432

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FedEx just delivered a 24gb NVIDIA Tesla GPU.

ya, i'm stupid.



[#] Tue Apr 25 2023 10:40:41 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Tho i have called them video cards a few times, technically they are
not. No video ports or support to produce video. Only GPU.

In the desktop hosting (VDI) world there are setups that can use a GPU in the server to accelerate the remote client's display. I think it can even be shared between multiple users. As far as I can tell it only supports a small number of specific GPU types, so I guess they're not just making OpenGL or DirectX calls the way a single-user operating system would.

So the GPU is essentially a massively parallel compute unit optimized for calculations but without all the trimmings and trappings of a general purpose CPU? That sounds like ... something other than what the end state will be.

[#] Tue Apr 25 2023 12:15:41 EDT from Nurb432

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Yup

Tue Apr 25 2023 10:40:41 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
So the GPU is essentially a massively parallel compute unit optimized for calculations but without all the trimmings and trappings of a general purpose CPU? 

 



[#] Fri Apr 28 2023 18:40:26 EDT from Nurb432

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So a Xeon  E3-1275LV3 is not the same as a Xeon E3-1275 E3 

Sigh. Burn $ like it comes on trees.

( but to be honest. i thought it said the same i guess i cant rea..  now i have a useless, to me, cpu in a drawer )



[#] Sun Apr 30 2023 10:17:06 EDT from Nurb432

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and i ordered the wrong power transformer for something..  ( amazon, 'order another' button but forgot i had ordered a similar one for an odd-ball case that was NOT the same plug.. )

geesh. not that either were enough money to really care about, its just frustrating.. 

 

And then you have shoes... 'driving moc'  show up as 'steel toe work boots'. Wrong leather too so assumed just a total mistake, send it back, order anther. Check status " work boots" again.. wtf.. the 'store' does not list them correctly..      ( tho the 2nd pair did have the correct leather..  but no, i cant wear steel toe even if i wanted to )

 

( ya borderline rant.. but it was related to the CPU thread.. no pun intended :) )



[#] Sat May 06 2023 11:17:12 EDT from Nurb432

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Well that F-ed up ARM board i had waited on for a year to arrive..  it made a round trip from here to china and back in under a month.

They replaced the defective power IC. Booted first attempt.  Frustrating.  But, its working now.



[#] Fri May 26 2023 14:52:35 EDT from Nurb432

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Decided to finally upgrade my desktop from an old Xeon E3-1275L v3  to a I7 1260P.  ( still lower power requirements. no need to burn electricity considering i'm not a gamer. and my Stable Diffusion box burns enough power as it is )  Will be here in a week or 2... I do hope i see a difference and didnt just burn the cash.   

I almost sprung for an I9..  but i try not to go overboard normally, and i like to conserve energy. Not that im turning green on you all.. but means it runs cooler, so lasts longer and less power $$.

 

( and im still annoyed from losing $ on that Tesla GPU for the AI server.. grr )



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