5 ms·
How I built a €25K Machine Learning Rig
- emilwallner 6y agoHey, I made a machine learning rig with four NVIDIA RTX A6000 and an AMD EPYC 2 with 32 cores, including 192 GB in GPU memory and 256GB in RAM. I made a 4000-word guide for people looking to build Nvidia Ampere prosumer workstations and servers, including: - Different budget tiers - Where to place them, home, office, data center, etc. - Constraints with consumer GPUs - Reasons to buy prosumer and enterprise GPUs - Building a workstation and a server - Key components in a rig and what to pick - Lists of retailers and build lists Let me know if you have any questions!
- geoah 6y agoI'd be really worried about thermals. The cards are very close to each other for an open air case, I'd expect it would need a case and enough fans to create some air pressure. There is some weird parts about mining rigs that I don't really agree with. "pcie risers" - as the author pointed out mining rigs usually go for 1x PCIE risers through USB cause they don't care about bandwidth - but that doesn't mean you need to go for that as well, you could have gone for 16x PCIE risers just fine which is just a long ribbon cable usually shielded. "mining rigs use crappy PSUs from alibaba" - you can use whatever PSU you want.
- emilwallner 6y agoI converted it into a server, I've been running it on full load for a week and the temperatures are 80C +- 2 degrees. I don't know if there is a way to use x16 cables without transferring electricity? Thus, mixing circuits. Consumer PSUs are maximum 2000W, so you have to turn to Alibaba for +2100 W PSUs.
- netmonk 6y agoThermaltake box. The best.
- emilwallner 6y agoYeah, they are mesmerising!
- netmonk 6y agoput your build on pcpartpicker, https://fr.pcpartpicker.com/b/sDmqqs https://fr.pcpartpicker.com/b/sDmqqs this is my 2018 build :)
- emilwallner 6y agoTight!! I was planning on it, but half of the components are enterprise parts and are not listed on pcpartpicker.
- jcims 6y agoEven though I’ll never use it, I still enjoyed the read!!!
- emilwallner 6y agoThanks!!