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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).
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.
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?
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.
Sat Apr 22 2023 12:32:00 PM EDT from IGnatius T FoobarMan, 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?
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.
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.
Yup
Tue Apr 25 2023 10:40:41 AM EDT from IGnatius T FoobarSo the GPU is essentially a massively parallel compute unit optimized for calculations but without all the trimmings and trappings of a general purpose CPU?
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 )
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 :) )
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.
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 )