I’d like to prevent building a completely new server just to run a gpu for AI workloads. Currently, everything is running on my laptop, except it’s dated cpu only really works well for smaller models.

Now I have an nvidia m40, could I possibly get it to work using thunderbolt and an enclosure or something? note: it’s on linux

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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      10 days ago

      Maybe you should do the maths on other options. You could get a refurbished PC for $350. Or buy the dock anyways. Or spend the money on cloud compute if you’re just occasionally using AI. Idk.

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        10 days ago

        I did not say occasionally. We use AI a lot. Currently it’s mostly for image indexing, recognition, object detection, and audio transcription. But we’re planning to expand to more, and we’d like to use models that are more accurate