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jcoffi t1_jamq5h8 wrote

Reply to comment by Boonzies in Alternatives to Google Colab by [deleted]

You can get around this with "sweat equity". But money is more effective.

I've used Ray.io in the past to connect old laptops with Nvidia GPUs together on a local network to get the job done.

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[deleted] OP t1_jamw50x wrote

I see.

But is nvidia gpus the only popular way to compute fast to your knowledge? I cant believe that cant be achieved w a Radeon card.

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jcoffi t1_jan1zj5 wrote

As of right now, nothing is as fast as CUDA. You don't have to take my word for it. There are papers out on the topic.

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Whispering-Depths t1_jaohrtj wrote

You can use even a cpu to train. It doesn't matter, it's just slower.

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[deleted] OP t1_jaokckq wrote

I think some models restrict training to gpu, but I may be wrong and its just configuration

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