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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by komali2 on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:38PM (#14005506)
Ok, I'll bite, how do you spend 12,000$ on a desktop? Just keep throwing videocards at it?
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by researcher11 on Friday March 31, 2017 @01:05PM (#14005772)
Pretty much. It's probably worth $6K at replacement cost today. It's for deep learning and I included what I spent on it and I've refreshed the 4 GPUs once. The current config is probably still good for a couple of years. Now if I need more GPUs I'll just get a second box. The irony is that I graphics power coming out of my ears yet I spend most of my time in vim and tmux.
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by problems on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:04PM (#14054598)
Just out of curiosity - are the GPUs really the best bet for you at that point? I believe you can buy dedicated FPGA cards, some of which support OpenCL workloads even which might offer you better performance - though they might cost a shitpile too.