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Ask HN: Is anyone using the Grayskull TPU for hobby projects? If so, what?
As the title says. I saw the Grayskull chips go live and am interested in picking one up, but have seen little about how to utilize it for hobby/side project purposes (or even how you would "route" a model to use the unit). Would love to hear from people using them (or planning to use them) and for what.
- krasin 3y agoI seriously considered using Grayskull. My desire was driven by the interest in NeRF and Gaussian Splatting, for training whose the Grayskull arhitecture (at least, on paper) could considerably outperform NVIDIA. I decided against it for three reasons: R1. Grayskull is a chip that they made in 2020 ([1]). They already have 2-3 newer chips generations available internally (Wormhole, Black Hole, Grendel), see [2]. R2. The price of the cards is high. It does not look like a too good value, even if judging by paper specs, and then the reality will always correct that down. R3. The primary Tenstorrent founder recently left the company to start a competitor, Taalas, while taking some of the Tenstorrent talent with him ([3]). I decided to wait until at least Wormhole cards available for purchase (hopefully, at a better price), before committing my time and money to Tenstorrent, even if just for exploration. 1. https://insidehpc.com/2020/05/tenstorrent-ships-grayskull-high-performance-ai-processor/ https://insidehpc.com/2020/05/tenstorrent-ships-grayskull-hi... 2. https://www.semianalysis.com/p/tenstorrent-blackhole-grendel-and https://www.semianalysis.com/p/tenstorrent-blackhole-grendel... 3. https://betakit.com/tenstorrent-founder-reveals-new-ai-chip-startup-taalas-with-50-million-in-funding/ https://betakit.com/tenstorrent-founder-reveals-new-ai-chip-...
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