can it run linux as I am not a windows nor a macos user
Nvidia RTX Spark
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Re: Nvidia RTX Spark
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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microslop doesn’t want people to be able to run their binaries elsewhere, it’s the only reason people buy their product.
They also buy it, because to this day most people cannot buy GNU/Linux powered laptops on the stores they usually buy their computers from. They only know Apple, Windows and Chromebooks.
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sort of. It's the same chipset as in the DGX Spark & DGX Station, which run Ubuntu (NVIDIA's flavor).
Sorry, but when it comes to chipsets, they're not even close. The DGX Spark uses a GB10 with 128 GB unified LPDDR5X memory, while the DGX Station has a GB300 with 496 GB LPDDR5X (CPU) + 252 GB HBM3e (GPU) memory. It's like Little League versus Major League, which is why the latter costs about 20 times more than the former. The fact that both run Linux is just because they're part of the same DGX family.
I took "same" to mean "compatible driver and software stack" not "compute perf", rightly or wrongly.
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#315Anything they can do to avoid producing more 5090 FEs.
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#316how will this compare to having an rtx pro 6000 for inference? (not training)
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#317Can it work with Linux? That's all I care about.
An nvidia engineer in a discord server said it should work fine
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#318Lots of comments are expressing skepticism about compatibility but it's pretty cool how Nvidia has the clout to convince a bunch of game publishers and creative apps to release Arm versions. Popular games like League of Legends as well as stuff like Adobe Photoshop and Premiere are getting native Arm ports. > Over 100 Windows software providers such as Adobe, Blackmagic Design, Blender, CapCut, ComfyUI and OTOY, and…
Press releases are easy. Delivering on promises, not so much.
This thread is almost 1:1 identical to when Apple released their own silicon. This has the potential to be a worthy competitor for the Windows ecosystem, precisely because of NVidia’s moat as the grandparent pointed out.
Microsoft pulls in their weight as well, so this seems like it has a decent chance of getting industry support.
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it only a matter of time? The AI-as-a-service companies are going to continue to improve their products by improving both the part that could be reproduced in a self-hosted setup, but also the “secret sauce” they put on top of that to make it a better product. There is no incentive for this “secret sauce” to be something that can be reproduced for self-hosting, is there?
What secret sauce? We already have open source tooling for tool use, web browsing, and code execution/computer use. Open weight models will win in the end. AIaaS might keep an edge with multi-modal agentic workflows, but for 80% of general use cases, no "secret sauce" needed, the open weight models are already there, and tooling is constantly getting better. The bottleneck is the cost of local hardware right now.
The "secret sauce" is vendor lock-in. A textbook case is the vmware broadcom situation. Vmware was cheap so corporations found little reason to use open source. Broadcom made vmware expensive but now those corporations are finding out that it is a lot of work (aka expensive) to switch infrastructure.
Re: Nvidia RTX Spark
#320Lots of comments are expressing skepticism about compatibility but it's pretty cool how Nvidia has the clout to convince a bunch of game publishers and creative apps to release Arm versions. Popular games like League of Legends as well as stuff like Adobe Photoshop and Premiere are getting native Arm ports. > Over 100 Windows software providers such as Adobe, Blackmagic Design, Blender, CapCut, ComfyUI and OTOY, and…
Apple and Steam have been successfully applying pressure for years. Who's willfully staying behind at this point?