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Why would this be preferred over using a GPU for calculations?
by arbol 6y ago
Why would this be preferred over using a GPU for calculations?
- aldanor 6y agoYour GPU has a few hundred gb of ram?
- arbol 6y agoWell, multiple GPUs can easily have this, yes. Surely the mining rigs they use in crypto can also be used in data science. Plus the new Nvidia GPU has 80gb.
- aldanor 6y agoIt's mostly not about "we need to mine these 100gb of data", but rather pandas-like comfort of messing around with humongous amount of data that is stored in ram, applying some common aggregations, filters, searches etc, and possibly calling some c functions if needed. This just not the use case for gpus.