Tony is joined by Nathan Odle to talk about how he takes consumer hardware and puts together systems to do fun AI tasks.  He has built systems using 7x NVIDIA 4090 and 7x Intel Arc A770.  Come here about his experience building the systems and using the software to solve real problems and squeeze maximum performance out of GPUs you can buy yourself.

Guest:

Nathan Odle is an engineer, rally racer, and AI enthusiast who enjoys combining cutting-edge technology with practical applications. In the pursuit of backprop, Nathan recently built a custom AI server using seven Intel Arc A770 graphics cards, showcasing how consumer hardware can be used for advanced AI tasks. You can learn more about how to build your own on his website: http://mov-axbx.com

Nathan Odle

Resources:

Nathan's X

https://x.com/mov_axbx

Intel® Arc™ A770 GPU

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/arc.html

Intel Extension for PyTorch

https://github.com/intel/intel-extension-for-pytorch