Devon Bray's Project Portfolio & Development Blog
Decommissioned NVIDIA enterprise GPUs are one of the last remaining sources of idle VRAM. K80 with 24GB of GDDR5 sells for $60, P100-16GB for around $75 and V100-16GB for under $200. Shortcomings and all, it s important to understand if we can utilize these widely available cards in the modern era. This project to benchmark tesla... The post Benchmarking 15 E-Waste GPUs with Modern Workloads…
There are several semi-professional thrifters in my life that regularly rotate through the different Goodwill stores in our city prowling for deals. Their habit exposes me to a bit of second hand second hand shopping, and I always request camera equipment. Above is the current state of the tripod pile. Often times these donated tripods... The post Saving a Secondhand Tripod appeared first on…
Previously a plan was set in motion to benchmark my collection of mighty Tesla GPUs. The set of cooler manifolds are designed, a GPU server benchmark suite has been created, and the time has come to start working through the spreadsheet. I have long suspected that the older multi node cards could be fantastic for... The post Introducing a GPU Server Benchmark for Tesla GPUs appeared first on…
For the past while I ve been working on a major redesign of my high performance gpu cooler project. The rapid ascent of the LLM into the collective consciousness has sent the big players into a frenzy over datacenter GPUs. This is putting accelerating downward pressure on the price of all used compute GPUs, even the... The post First look at the New GPU Cooler Prototype appeared first on esologic…
In the conclusion of my previous homelab post, I pled to the eBay gods begging for a 4xP100 system. My prayers were heard, possibly by a malevolent spirit as a V100 16GB for $400 surfaced. More money than I d be willing to spend on a P100 but the cheapest I d ever seen a V100, I... The post 1kW of GPUs on the OpenBenchTable appeared first on esologic .
My beloved blog post still sits on the throne as the most effective format for engineering projects. To me, Inlining code, photographs, CAD models and schematics in an interactive way trumps other mediums. This level of interactivity closes the gap between reader and material, allowing an independent relationship with the subject outside of the story... The post Hardware for Engineering Stream…
There s an unspoken tenant of the maker movement that demands: calls for bespoke engineering work from friends should always be answered. Maker projects for friends pay dividends in net-happiness injected into the world. My ol pal Ben (A.K.A Bensbeendead.) knows this kind of work is a favorite of mine. So when he asked, of course... The post Stage Pieces for Bensbeendead. appeared first on…
In the years since the GANce days, Rosewill s massive 4U chassis, RSV-L4000U has housed my daily-driver virtualization host. The guts of the build are almost identical to the original spec, but it has come time to move into a smaller case. CX4200A from Sliger won out because of a few factors. The main one is... The post Perfecting the Sliger CX4200A: Rear Exhaust Fans + Drive Shelf appeared first…
This post is one in a series about GANce Close-readers, twitter-followers and corporeal-comrades will have already beheld the good news that Won Pound by Won Pound has been released! This is Won s second album-length project (first of course being Post Space released in 2018), and graces listener s ears courtesy of Minaret Records, a California jazz... The post Won Pound by Won Pound is released!…
This post is one in a series about GANce As it stood, the three main features that would comprise the upcoming collaboration with Won Pound (slated for release mid-April) were: Projection Files (using a styleGAN2 network to project each of the individual frames in a source video, resulting in a series of latent vectors that... The post GANce Overlays appeared first on esologic .