What's the minimum nVidia GPU spec (VRAM) and SSD/HDD disc space (TB) required, from your perspective?
Get a GTX 1070 at a minimum. GTX 1080 Ti if you have a bit more cash to spend. Disk space is entirely dependent on your data set size. We're not talking huge numbers for most things you would be doing
Re:YC AI
by sai-prasanna on Monday March 20, 2017 @08:47AM
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I have GTX 970 and how much spare space do we need?
btw, I have a doubt, the course has specific video to setup aws, for local machines, what to do? should I install the required packages python, keras or whatever they use?
Re:YC AI
by metafunctor on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:25AM
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The install-gpu.sh script found in fastai's github can be used to set up the required environment on an Ubuntu box.
A GTX 970 should do. The exercises are designed for GPUs with more memory, so you'll need to use smaller batch sizes here and there.
If you have a workstation with a fairly recent Nvidia GPU (I used a GTX 980 TI) and bunch of spare disk space, you don't need AWS at all. You'll still pay for the electricity, of course, but it's not what I would call a significant extra cost. That is, if you already have the hardware.