Tech tip: When running AI locally, use the graphics card

[AlexB23]

Hello folks. A few days ago, I found out that the AI front-end system is much faster at processing or "learning" PDF documents when I set it to GPU, as it takes only an hour or so to learn 10 million words of documents compared to over a day using CPU. In other words, I do not have to wait as much for the machine to learn documents. Which means if you want me to use the AI more, I can.

 

[Reluctant Theologian]

Hello folks. A few days ago, I found out that the AI front-end system is much faster at processing or "learning" PDF documents when I set it to GPU, as it takes only an hour or so to learn 10 million words of documents compared to over a day using CPU. In other words, I do not have to wait as much for the machine to learn documents. Which means if you want me to use the AI more, I can.

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travelling soon?

 

[AlexB23]

travelling soon?

Yep. 11/4-11/18

 

[Reluctant Theologian]

Yep. 11/4-11/18

Have a great journey - I'm sure you will see plenty of interesting stuff besides family. I'm in NL now as well ... Let me know if/when you may need any assistance

 

[AlexB23]

Have a great journey - I'm sure you will see plenty of interesting stuff besides family. I'm in NL now as well ... Let me know if/when you may need any assistance

Thank you brother. God bless.

 

[timewerx]

Hello folks. A few days ago, I found out that the AI front-end system is much faster at processing or "learning" PDF documents when I set it to GPU, as it takes only an hour or so to learn 10 million words of documents compared to over a day using CPU. In other words, I do not have to wait as much for the machine to learn documents. Which means if you want me to use the AI more, I can.

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I told you this a long time ago.

You were complaining so often about your old laptop computer how it's so slow with the low RAM and I told you to use the GPU.

Modern data-crunching apps tend to have the option to use GPU including open-source apps. You just need to explore the options/settings/preferences/documentation/google it to see if the app has it.

I always look for that option whenever I'm using app that's starting to feel slow in relation to the volume of data being handled.

 

[AlexB23]

I told you this a long time ago.

You were complaining so often about your old laptop computer how it's so slow with the low RAM and I told you to use the GPU.

Modern data-crunching apps tend to have the option to use GPU including open-source apps. You just need to explore the options/settings/preferences/documentation/google it to see if the app has it.

I always look for that option whenever I'm using app that's starting to feel slow in relation to the volume of data being handled.

Yeah, I did not know how to do that at the time, but you were right, even an NVIDIA 1050M GPU has the power to do this.

In other words, I should have taken your advice. I do not need an NVIDIA 3090, and am really surprised that a 1050 mobile GPU on a laptop can be so fast. The GPU is a lifesaver. My GPU is roughly 2 TeraFLOPS which is slow by today's standards, but is dozens of times faster compared to my CPU.

 

[timewerx]

Yeah, I did not know how to do that at the time, but you were right, even an NVIDIA 1050M GPU has the power to do this.

In other words, I should have taken your advice. I do not need an NVIDIA 3090, and am really surprised that a 1050 mobile GPU on a laptop can be so fast. The GPU is a lifesaver. My GPU is roughly 2 TeraFLOPS which is slow by today's standards, but is dozens of times faster compared to my CPU.

Your laptop is still way more capable than mine that still uses non-Vulkan Intel GPU.

This is why Nvidia is one of the companies at the forefront of research with driverless vehicles and machine learning.

 

[AlexB23]

Your laptop is still way more capable than mine that still uses non-Vulkan Intel GPU.

This is why Nvidia is one of the companies at the forefront of research with driverless vehicles and machine learning.

Yeah, mine uses Vulkan or CUDA.

 

[The Liturgist]

This is why Nvidia is one of the companies at the forefront of research with driverless vehicles and machine learning.

Albeit greatly disliked by the Linux community and other open source operating system projects.

 

[AlexB23]

Albeit greatly disliked by the Linux community and other open source operating system projects.

Use Vulkan instead