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I'd like to prevent building a completely new server just to run a gpu for AI workloads. Currently, everything is running on my laptop, except it's dated cpu only really works well for smaller models.

Now I have an nvidia m40, could I possibly get it to work using thunderbolt and an enclosure or something? note: it's on linux

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you've got a thunderbolt port on your laptop and a thunderbolt dock on your laptop then there's no reason why it shouldn't work.

I'm not familiar with thunderbolt on linux, but on windows you plug it in and it just works™️ and shows up as if it was inside your machine. Your DE on linux might automatically do it, but if you're command line only you'll probably have to run a command first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I did some more searching, and found that nvme to pci-e adapters are affordable. That's going to look a bit janky, but fortunately I don't care.

Thank you again for the suggestion!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

worth a shot then, worst case I return the dock thing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I did some quick googling. Are those thunderbolt docks really $350 ? That's like half the price of a cheap computer?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That can't be
googling ..
holy damn you're right

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Maybe you should do the maths on other options. You could get a refurbished PC for $350. Or buy the dock anyways. Or spend the money on cloud compute if you're just occasionally using AI. Idk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I did not say occasionally. We use AI a lot. Currently it's mostly for image indexing, recognition, object detection, and audio transcription. But we're planning to expand to more, and we'd like to use models that are more accurate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fair enough. Yes I figured you probably wouldn't have a M40 lying around by accident 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Oh it kinda just got here somehow. I don't know why, all I did was buy the thing