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Re: "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"

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Post by nick__m »

sdfdsfsdfsdfs wrote: post #5

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you made me check out the 'For you tab' (I had an account to read post) and unlike you my X seems like a nicer place than yours :

1-a post from Macron on Pavel

2-a picture of a dog

3-another post on Pavel by a weird account

4-future will be tab tab tab by Karpathy

5- a post by Yann LeCun

6- Elon ... :(

7- an animation of a Cockatoo

8- an infographic explaining that paradoxically the shape the shape of a light wave can travel faster than the speed of light itself!

9- someone happy about ETH Zurich CS curriculum

10- someone reposting an image full, of text about being underpaid

It's not perfect, Macron and Musk have no place there, but it's not the MAGA bar you got.

Re: "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"

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Post by jasomill »

SushiHippie wrote: post #15
WithinReason wrote: post #3

https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox Looks like good value, but I wonder if it would get CPU/RAM bottlenecked, especially if you want to train something with a lot of preprocessing in the pipeline. Something comparable I've found with 7x4090 which comes to about $50k, but with much better CPU/RAM (3x CPU, 4x RAM, 5x SSD): https://www.overclockers.co.uk/8pack-supernova-mk3-amd-ryzen...

> 6x PCIe 4.0 x16 (64 GB/s) Wikipedia [0] states that PCIe 4.0 x16 has a throughput of ~32GB/s, what does the (64 GB/s) indicate on the website, is this just a typo and you have 6x ~32GB/s or does it mean in total you can "only" expect a throughput of 64GB/s all lanes slots combined? If so, wouldn't you also be bottlenecked by the PCIe bandwidth (when moving data between CPU and GPU)? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Most EPYCs have 128 PCIe lanes, so I'd expect a full x16 link for all six GPUs.

Pedantically, the combined bidirectional bandwidth of PCIe x16 is ~64 GB/s, as it's a full-duplex ~32 GB/s link, but that's an awfully misleading spec if this is the intent (akin to claiming Gigabit Ethernet is 2 Gb/sec).

Re: "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"

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Post by biorach »

paretoer wrote: post #28
ajb wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Social media sites are the collective equivalent of a "dollar auction"[1] In the dollar auction, each immediate choice isrational, but the overall process inevitably results in you losing value once you've decided to participate. But at each step, you lose more by quitting than by keeping going. Social media is the same, except that it's collective: if you want to keep in touch with certain people, you don't have a c…

As someone who doesn't use social media this analogy strikes me as a rationalization for something you know is bad for you and a waste of your time but you can't stop so you make up this fiction about how you would lose more by stopping. An alcoholic who can't stop going to the bar because they will lose their drinking buddies is not a dollar auction.

It's not a rationalisation, and you're missing the point.

Re: "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"

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Post by sidewndr46 »

vessenes wrote: post #22

I thought to myself this morning: "boy, that $15k pricetage is tempting." Then I thought to myself "how many times have I downloaded a github repo only to hand-replace cuda with mps, and then tried to figure out if there's a version of xformers that will work this week with my m3?" and then I thought "boy, that $25k is tempting." (15k: Radeon / 25k: Nvidia). For those wondering, 3200W power, in residential / low-end…

a 220 volt 20 amp circuit should be good for over 3500 watts constant load in North America. Why is it requiring two circuits?

Re: "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"

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Post by apexalpha »

jagrsw wrote: post #13
threeseed wrote: post #7

Very unusual specs on paper. - Air cooling 6x4090 and a 32 core CPU for sustained peak workloads. - 3200W total power when a single 4090 can draw close to 600W. Maybe they are targeting startups who aren't interested in overclocking.

This thing could run off a single US outlet (1600W) with some throttling, if I'm not mistaken? Shame it wasn't designed for EU sockets. 230V*16A = 3700W, or double that on separate breakers!

3200W seems perfect for a EU socket.

Seperate breakers aren't really a thing here, at least in my country, usually if you need more power you draw 400V

Re: "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"

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Post by plasticchris »

I looked at the specs at the start of the year and just built something with the high end of consumer parts at around 4k usd. I was able to replicate the mlc 2x7900xtx results running some LLMs. Good enough to run most of the big models in gpu memory with a little quantization.

Re: "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"

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Post by tejohnso »

sdfdsfsdfsdfs wrote: post #5

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> Every time I see or hear someone is using Twitter, I really wonder what is wrong with them

I feel the same about facebook. Sometimes when I visit my mother she'll show me something on there and I'm struck by how much garbage fills the screen. Why bother? But I can see there's a small percentage of content that actually matters to her (family updates) and the other stuff doesn't upset her too much. Except when a cooking channel sneaks in pornographic advertisements in their story feed and she couldn't figure out how to get rid of it.

Re: "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"

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Post by hashhar »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #34
vessenes wrote: post #22

I thought to myself this morning: "boy, that $15k pricetage is tempting." Then I thought to myself "how many times have I downloaded a github repo only to hand-replace cuda with mps, and then tried to figure out if there's a version of xformers that will work this week with my m3?" and then I thought "boy, that $25k is tempting." (15k: Radeon / 25k: Nvidia). For those wondering, 3200W power, in residential / low-end…

a 220 volt 20 amp circuit should be good for over 3500 watts constant load in North America. Why is it requiring two circuits?

IIRC USA is 110V, not 220V?

Re: "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"

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Post by akrhg »

sdfdsfsdfsdfs wrote: post #5

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It is because your account is mostly unused. If you use Google search without a login and all cookies cleared, you get one murder, one car accident, one latest meme, etc. In other words, tabloid material.

I am afraid to use autocomplete because it is so disgusting and distracting.

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