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Re:Nvidia's DG-Net: Dress up people with different clothes/u... by cerocer on Friday July 12, 2019 @03:51PM (#20423857)
Perhaps if GPUDirect [1] were available on consumer devices, it would be possible to DMA training/model data in from an SSD/Optane/hypothetical DRAM-based PCIe drive and scale up to bigger problems as a result.

Alas, not even AMD allows access to their GPUDirect equivalent, and I can't imagine anyone being able to drum up enough pressure for those vendors to flip the toggle to make them available on their consumer lines.

[1]: https://developer.nvidia.com/gpudirect

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Re:Nvidia's DG-Net: Dress up people with different clothes/u... by shaklee3 on Saturday July 13, 2019 @09:27AM (#20427944)
Gpudirect is one of the last differentiators with pro version consumer cards. The 2080Ti allowed use of tensor cores on consumer cards, so I would bet they'd never enable gpudirect, since they need something different.
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