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I recently bought a fast laptop for home use that has a 1070 GPU and the experience of using a local device with a GPU makes me regret many years of SSHing to r
by gaius 8y ago
I recently bought a fast laptop for home use that has a 1070 GPU and the experience of using a local device with a GPU makes me regret many years of SSHing to remote compute
Most interesting problems in my experience are constrained by I/O bandwidth, and being able to run C/GPUs for extended periods without thermal issues. You really need something in a DC for that. I chose not to bother with a GPU laptop myself because there just seemed to be no point, for ML at least. I guess just for playing, it’s a nice luxury, but I can’t imagine relying on it for real work.
- zozbot123 8y agoGaming desktop PCs exist for a single reason - "being able to run C/GPUs for extended periods without thermal issues." If you were doing this for actual work, you'd obviously need to step upwards to a real workstation, which would actually be built quite similarly to a bog-standard gaming desktop save for using higher reliability components, e.g. FirePro- or Quadro-class GPU hardware. But to suggest that you need "something in a DC" to explore interesting problems seems quite wrong to me.