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I am looking to replace my old PC, and wondering what other people use.

Do you use your own hardware? If so, what do you have? What do you think gives you the most bang for your buck at the moment?

Do you use the cloud instead? If so, why? Which service(s) do you use?

Thank you!

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[–] __forward__@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think major training should just be done on dedicated servers/on the cloud. That being said it is very helpful to test locally, so in case you are planning on using Nvidia equipped servers just get any somewhat recent consumer Nvidia card and you can always run locally on some sample data and test much more easily.

[–] konodas@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I second that. Being able to test medium sized models locally can make debugging much easier.

I have a 3070 with 8GB VRAM, which can train e.g. a GPT2 with a batch-size of 1 with full precision.

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