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Re: Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator

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Has anyone here bought an AI accelerator to run their AI SaaS service from their home to customers instead of trying to make a profit on top of OpenAI or Replicate

Seems like an okay $8,000 - $30,000 investment, and bare metal server maintenance isn’t that complicated these days.

Re: Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator

#22

Anyone have experience and suggestions for an AI accelerator? Think prototype consumer product with total cost preferably < $500, definitely less than $1000.

The default answer is to get the biggest Nvidia gaming card you can afford, prioritizing VRAM size over speed. Ideally one of the 24GB ones.

Re: Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator

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> Twenty-four 200 gigabit (Gb) Ethernet ports are integrated into every Intel Gaudi 3 accelerator WHAT‽ It's basically got the equivalent of a 24-port, 200-gigabit switch built into it. How does that make sense? Can you imaging stringing 24 Cat 8 cables between servers in a single rack? Wait: How do you even decide where those cables go? Do you buy 24 Gaudi 3 accelerators and run cables directly between every single…

For Gaudi2, it looks like 21/24 ports are internal to the server. I highly doubt those have actual individual cables. Most likely they're just carried on PCBs like any other signal.

100GBe is only supported on twinax anyway, so Cat8 is irrelevant here. The other 3 ports are probably QSFP or something.

Re: Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator

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Anyone have experience and suggestions for an AI accelerator? Think prototype consumer product with total cost preferably < $500, definitely less than $1000.

You can get very cheap tesla P40s with 24gb of ram. They are much much slower than the newer cards but offer decent value for running a local chatbot.

I can't speak to the ease of configuration but know that some people have used these successfully.

Re: Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator

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Can we expect the price of 'Gaudi 3 PCIe' to be reasonable enough to put in a workstation? That would be a game changer for local LLMs

Just based on the RAM alone, let's just say if you can't just buy a Vision Pro without a second thought about the price tag, don't get your hopes up.

Re: Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator

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> Twenty-four 200 gigabit (Gb) Ethernet ports are integrated into every Intel Gaudi 3 accelerator WHAT‽ It's basically got the equivalent of a 24-port, 200-gigabit switch built into it. How does that make sense? Can you imaging stringing 24 Cat 8 cables between servers in a single rack? Wait: How do you even decide where those cables go? Do you buy 24 Gaudi 3 accelerators and run cables directly between every single…

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