Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P
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#3Was it George himself, or a person working for a bounty that was set up by tinycorp?
Also, a question for those knowledgeable about the PCI subsys: it looked like something NVIDIA didn't care about, rather than something they actively wanted to prevent, no?
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#4It'll be nice while it lasts, until they start locking this down in the firmware instead on future architectures.
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#5Is this one of those features that's disabled on consumer cards for market segmentation?
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#6Skimming the readme this is p2p over PCIe and not NVLink in case anyone was wondering.
Re: Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P
#7Was it George himself, or a person working for a bounty that was set up by tinycorp? Also, a question for those knowledgeable about the PCI subsys: it looked like something NVIDIA didn't care about, rather than something they actively wanted to prevent, no?
Commits are by geohot, so it looks like George himself.
Re: Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P
#8Skimming the readme this is p2p over PCIe and not NVLink in case anyone was wondering.
afaik 4090 doesn’t support 5.0 so you are limited to 4.0 speeds. Still an improvement.
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#9fyi should work on most 40xx[1]
[1] https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/119638#issuecommen...
Re: Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P
#10If we end up with a compute governance model of AI control [1], this sort of thing could get your door kicked in by the CEA (Compute Enforcement Agency).
[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-safety-fundamentals...