Facebook open-sources deep-learning modules

Re:Facebook open-sources deep-learning modules by raverbashing on Friday January 16, 2015 @03:36PM (#8901514)

Well, it depends, you can definitely have servers with NVidia hardware, and you don't need to have all of them with it. (Amazon offers GPGPU servers on EC2 for example)

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Re:Facebook open-sources deep-learning modules by bhouston on Friday January 16, 2015 @07:00PM (#8902594)

Amazon only offers very costly Tesla and Quadro cards on their GPGPUs. Super expensive. For scale, if you do not need the extra memory on the Tesla cards, what you want is commodity NVIDIA GeForce cards that are a fraction of the cost.

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Re:Facebook open-sources deep-learning modules by polskibus on Saturday January 17, 2015 @02:33AM (#8903781)

Standard cards are handicapped for double precision operations though (1/8 speed afaik).

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Re:Facebook open-sources deep-learning modules by p1esk on Saturday January 17, 2015 @04:48AM (#8903984)

You don't need double precision for typical DL tasks, such as training a convnet.

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Re:Facebook open-sources deep-learning modules by raverbashing on Saturday January 17, 2015 @05:50AM (#8904060)

Double precision is overrated :) (at least for ML)

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