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Re: Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0

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Some people use second hand P40 GPUs, which go for around 200-300$. Combine 3 of them with SLI and you've got 72GB of VRAM for less then $1000

I do use a P40 for my machine learning box, but I'm curious how you put three on the same system, given they need a CPU power plug and a pci-e port. Then, to cool them, you need to plug your own cooling system, requiring more specific power plugs to be available. What kind of chassis, motherboard, power unit you use to do that? It'll certainly will cost more than $1000 anyway, especially since you also need a decent…

http://nonint.com/ has some interesting posts about how he build a custom server to house 8 GPU's (3090's in this case). You're right that that will set you back more than $1000, though I was only referring to the GPU's themselves.
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