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fenced_load commented on 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/rbanffy
angoragoats · 3 months ago
> Also, as the OP noted, this setup can support up to 4 Mac devices because each Mac must be connected to every other Mac!! All the more reason for Apple to invest in something like QSFP.

This isn’t any different with QSFP unless you’re suggesting that one adds a 200GbE switch to the mix, which:

* Adds thousands of dollars of cost,

* Adds 150W or more of power usage and the accompanying loud fan noise that comes with that,

* And perhaps most importantly adds measurable latency to a networking stack that is already higher latency than the RDMA approach used by the TB5 setup in the OP.

fenced_load · 3 months ago
Mikrotik has a switch that can do 6x200g for ~$1300 and <150W.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1926851-REG/mikrotik_...

fenced_load commented on New federal data show H-1B and H-4 visas now capture 82% of all new US tech jobs   twitter.com/WalkInVerse/s... · Posted by u/DonnyV
Dilettante_ · 8 months ago
I couldn't see any source for the figure in the headline?
fenced_load · 8 months ago
That's because this tweet is written to maximize engagement. Number 3 uses a screenshot of some other random tweet that says all people of indian descent in the US are "agents" (5.1 million people).
fenced_load commented on Apple's MLX adding CUDA support   github.com/ml-explore/mlx... · Posted by u/nsagent
zcbenz · 8 months ago
In the absence of hardware unified memory, CUDA will automatically copy data between CPU/GPU when there are page faults.
fenced_load · 8 months ago
There is also NVLink c2c support between Nvidia's CPUs and GPUs that doesn't require any copy, CPUs and GPUs directly access each other's memory over a coherent bus. IIRC, they have 4 CPU + 4 GPU servers already available.

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KarmaCake day117August 22, 2024View Original