Show Notes
Emil is a resident at the Google Arts & Culture Lab were he explores the intersection between art and machine learning. He recently built his own Machine Learning server, or rig, which costed him €25000.
Emil's Story: https://www.emilwallner.com/p/ml-rig
Youtube: https://youtu.be/njbPpxhE6W0
00:00 Intro
00:23 Building your own rig
06:11 The Nvidia GPU rder hack
15:51 Inside Emil's rig
21:31 Motherboard
23:55 Cooling and datacenters
29:36 Deep Learning lessons from owning your hardware
36:20 Shared resources vs. personal GPUs
39:12 RAM, chassis and airflow
42:42 Amd, Apple, Arm and Nvidia
51:15 Tensorflow, TPUs, cloud minsdet, EleutherAI
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