Was nice seeing that the 5090 exists, but boy, those prices.
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av3csr commented on Windows Control Panel set for deprecation theregister.com/2024/08/2... · Posted by u/laktak
One thing I greatly dislike about the settings app is the fact we can only have one section opened at once. If you are debugging, say Bluetooth and sound issues, the setting app can only exclusively show either Bluetooth or Sound, not both, (AFAIK) you can't open a second instance of the app.
av3csr commented on A simple circuit could offer an alternative to energy-intensive GPUs technologyreview.com/2024... · Posted by u/sroussey
>LLaMA 13b (24.5GB) and Ministral 7b (13.6GB)
But the HW requirements state 8GB of VRAM. How do those models fit in that?
They are int4 quantized
av3csr commented on Demystifying GPU compute architectures thechipletter.substack.co... · Posted by u/rbanffy
You can view it, but there's no documentation for it, nor a listing of all instructions. You need to guess what the instructions actually do. Sometimes it's not so difficult, like IADD3; but sometimes it's not at all trivial.
The only "documentation" we have is in the form of the binary utility docs, which has a list of SASS instructions
https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-binary-utilities/index.htm...
though there is no guarantee this is exhaustive, no opcodes either (though you could reverse engineer it using cuobjdump -sass and a hex editing like I've been doing). I'm pretty sure some of the instructions in the list are deprecated as well (95% percent sure that PMTRIG does nothing >Volta)
Been playing Might and Magic IV & V (Worlds of Xeen) on ScummVM lately, probably the best way to play them.
av3csr commented on Simplifying GPU Application Development with HMM developer.nvidia.com/blog... · Posted by u/one_even_prime
they used to not support unified memory in their vGPU drivers. it was a major deal breaker back then.
According to the manual, UVM is supposed to be working on vGPUs (at least MIG-backed vCS), I could never get it working though
I've had luck extracting/parsing documentation with chatGPT and the Link Reader plugin.
I watched the Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary a few weeks ago, this reminds me of the claims that the Nixon campaign pretty much did the same thing in '68 with the Republic of Vietnam and the peace talks (i.e. our guy will get you a better deal.)
av3csr commented on Avatar 2 looks different from every movie you’ve ever seen–here’s why cnbc.com/2022/12/15/why-a... · Posted by u/tiahura
Hopefully the setting will help it avoid the soap-opera/theatre look of The Hobbit