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Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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Re: Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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I wonder how the emmc flash holds up over many writes, and what form of wear leveling it uses compared to a consumer class m2 interface, sata3 SSD. One of the main problems with rpi is the microsd media, even "industrial" cards cannot tolerate anywhere near the writes that a $50 SSD can take.

Re: Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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> 472 gigaflops Whenever I hear a number of gigaflops or terraflops, I like to look up the history of super computers [0]. This $99 computer is faster (on paper) than the world's fastest supercomputer in 1996, or a bit over 20 years ago. That's pretty cool. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing#Mass...

A Pentium 90 was probably fairly common in the mid 90s. Delivered a whopping 0.09 GFLOPS :)

The Power Mac G4 was was briefly a restricted export due to its power (late 90s). This, obviously, gave ultimate childhood bragging rights.

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.wired.com/2002/01/thats-a...

Re: Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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Quad core arm, 4gb of ram and gigE! Seems like a really nice board

Also has an M.2 slot for WiFi, as well as both HDMI and DP...supports two simultaneous displays out of the box.

Why would you use the M.2 for wifi and not a super fast disk in that slot? USB bus should be able to handle wifi just fine.

Re: Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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Hope it'll ship with better support that the first Jetson. The one they marketed with all that AI/Machine Vision stuff and then shipped without a camera driver. This is just following Google's Edge TPU, which probably competes with a Raspberry Pi + Movidius stick. The market there is getting interesting.

Yeah! Looks exciting. I will say that the Raspberry Pi is USB 2, so bandwidth between , say, your camera and the Movidius Stick is limited. The google device and this one should have proper high bandwidth interfaces.

Re: Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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This has an M.2 Key E connector which has PCIe ×2, USB 2.0, I2C, SDIO, UART and PCM. Hypothetically an M.2 PCIe drive could work with a Key M to Key E adapter, but I couldn't find one in a cursory search.

Unfortunately it looks like you lose wireless connectivity then.

If USB is available it may be acceptable to use USB for wifi.

Re: Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

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Cheaper than the $150 Google TPU Dev Board, and looks like it can do training as well as inference. Training is a slight win (although it's going to be too slow for anything useful really). But it looks like the TPU will outperform this somewhat for inference. The 256 core Jetson (this has 128 cores) could run MobileNet-v2 at between 12 and 20 ms per image (depending on batch size)[1], while the USB TPU adapter takes…

>> Nor does the TPU dev board. Yes it does require you to send your model to Google: https://coral.withgoogle.com/web-compiler/

Oh, interesting! I hadn't seen that.
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