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Irrelevant for you does not mean irrelevant for others
by FpUser 3mo ago
Irrelevant for you does not mean irrelevant for others
- amelius 3mo agoNails and hammers are great but most of us have moved on to screws and screwdrivers. What good does it do to stick your head in the sand? CPUs are great for orchestrating work, GPUs are great for actually doing the work.
- FpUser 3mo ago>"What good does it do to stick your head in the sand?" Get the fuck out. I do write for GPU as well. One does not replace the other.
- justthetop 3mo agoFor high performance work, gpus have replaced cpus a long time ago.
- goodmythical 3mo agoNot for all definitions of HPC, though. No one's doing database management on GPUs. No one's scraping data on GPUs. Can't run VMs on GPUs. Can't run web servers on GPU...
- FpUser 3mo agoIt is sunny in my backyard now. Must be sunny everywhere else
- kergonath 3mo agoThere is plenty of "high performance work" that still requires CPUs.
- WD-42 3mo agoDid you write this comment using your gpu?
- FpUser 3mo agoActually modern rendering might involve GPU
- goodmythical 3mo ago>CPUs are great for orchestrating work Right, and wouldn't it be really nice if we could check on our orchestrators to make sure their not bottlenecking ops? "How come we can fully load the GPUs?" "Idk boss, amelius said htop et al were irrelevant so we can't really investigate"
- amelius 3mo ago"Use gtop, a tool that shows both cpu and gpu load, and more. I am your boss, you should know this stuff, not me".
- JdeBP 3mo agoScrews have been around for about 3 millennia at this point. They have patently failed to obviate the use of nails. So by this analogy we can expect the 'Only GPUs do the work.' believers to be still promising this, any day now, about three thousand years hence. (-:
- amelius 3mo agoSoftware is getting more complicated and a lot of it depends on both cpu and gpu. If you have a systems tool that gives an overview of resources used, then better monitor them both. Imho failing to do so is not future-proof. Your opinion might differ.