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I have access to an Nvidia A100. But as a layman, what specs does the rest of the system need to use it for some real work? I would assume there needs to be at
by sureglymop 4y ago
I have access to an Nvidia A100. But as a layman, what specs does the rest of the system need to use it for some real work? I would assume there needs to be at least as much ram as vram and maybe a few terabytes of disk space. Does anyone have experience with this?
- michaelt 4y agoIf you have an A100, which in its 80GB variant costs $23,667 [1], you would not generally quibble over the price of a few terabytes of disk space. [1] https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/nvidia-ampere-a100-pcie-300w-80gb-passive-double-wide-full-height-gpu-customer-install/apd/490-bhbk/graphic-video-cards https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/nvidia-ampere-a100-pcie-300w...
- sureglymop 4y agoA whole different department made those decisions and I don't think they had any idea of what is actually needed. They wanted to buy such a GPU because training your own model is a trendy thing and they wanted to stay within their budget (mostly used up by the GPU). I'm just trying to scramble together something from the hacked together thing I now have to deal with.