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Nails 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 o
by amelius 4mo ago
Nails 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 4mo 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 4mo agoFor high performance work, gpus have replaced cpus a long time ago.
- goodmythical 4mo 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 4mo agoIt is sunny in my backyard now. Must be sunny everywhere else
- kergonath 4mo agoThere is plenty of "high performance work" that still requires CPUs.
- WD-42 4mo agoDid you write this comment using your gpu?
- FpUser 4mo agoActually modern rendering might involve GPU
- goodmythical 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo 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.