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This is funny, but I prefer my computers silent. Semi-related: I can hear the inductors on my NVIDIA GPU, which is somewhat useful. When I am training deep lea
by danieldk 5y ago
This is funny, but I prefer my computers silent.
Semi-related: I can hear the inductors on my NVIDIA GPU, which is somewhat useful. When I am training deep learning models, the coil whine follows very regular patterns. Also, the pattern changes between training and validation. So, I can literally hear when an epoch is done.
(Of course, TensorBoard for the real monitoring.)
- savant_penguin 5y agoI can relate 100% I could literally hear the minibatches running, they sound more or less evenly spaced treek..treek.. and when it's at the end of the epoch, the larger batch for validation begins, it's a much longer treeeek
- amelius 5y agoDo you also hear this when your speakers/audio system are off?
- HPsquared 5y agoI'm not GP, but yes: coil whine is audible as a high frequency whine/buzz, caused by power supply components (inductors) physically vibrating at high frequency.
- Scene_Cast2 5y agoDo you do anything special for cooling the GPUs? I mounted a giant CPU heatsink to my gtx 1080, and it still has to turn on the fans when running ML workloads.
- semi-extrinsic 5y agoIf you have something that produces ~300 W of heat and you want to keep it from becoming hot, you're going to need either fans or liquid cooling (which also has fans, on the radiator).
- abledon 5y agoWhen I'm training a model on a RTX 2070, i have a 'ticking' coilwhine that ticks every 1second... kinda funny that it only happens when i do that