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The cheapest Volta GPUs I have seen so far cost over 2K for 12GB. Can the GPU provided in this kit be used for training?
by smg 6y ago
The cheapest Volta GPUs I have seen so far cost over 2K for 12GB. Can the GPU provided in this kit be used for training?
- fizixer 6y agoNope, the use of the words 'edge' and 'inference' in the tag-line pretty much mean there is no learning, no training.
- wmf 6y agoDoes it have "fake" tensor cores? Aren't those for training?
- fizixer 6y agoYou still need tensor cores for inference. But they don't do weight updates. Learning/training is all about updating the weights (through backpropagation or whatever). So another way to put it: its tensor cores do feed-forward calculations, but no backpropagation, and no weight updates.
- rrss 6y agoThe hardware and platform is capable of training just fine. It's just rarely done because it is slower than training on pretty much any discrete GPU.
- dchichkov 6y agoYes, if your model is small enough or, if you are fine-tuning small number of layers. TendorFlow 1.15 and 2.0 are available on Xavier. I understand that PyTorch could be built as well. Nite that the number of CUDA kernels and amount of memory available is smaller, if compared to descrete Volta GPUs.