Evaluating the speed of GeForce RTX 40-Series GPUs using NVIDIA’s TensorRT-LLM tool for benchmarking GPU inference performance.
Experiences with Multi-GPU Stable Diffusion Training
Results and thoughts with regard to testing a variety of Stable Diffusion training methods using multiple GPUs.
LLM Server Setup Part 2 — Container Tools
This post is Part 2 in a series on how to configure a system for LLM deployments and development usage. Part 2 is about installing and configuring container tools, Docker and NVIDIA Enroot.
LLM Server Setup Part 1 – Base OS
This post is Part 1 in a series on how to configure a system for LLM deployments and development usage. The configuration will be suitable for multi-user deployments and also useful for smaller development systems. Part 1 is about the base Linux server setup.
Can You Run A State-Of-The-Art LLM On-Prem For A Reasonable Cost?
In this post address the question that’s been on everyone’s mind; Can you run a state-of-the-art Large Language Model on-prem? With *your* data and *your* hardware? At a reasonable cost?
Note: How To Setup Apache on Ubuntu 22.04 For User public_html
This is a short note on setting up the Apache web server to allow system users to create personal websites and web apps in their home directories.
GTC23 Notes And Selected Sessions
NVIDIA GTC 2023 was outstanding! To say that about a virtual conference tells you how much I value it. This post is largely a catalog of the talks I found interesting along with titles that I think will be interesting to a larger audience and my colleagues at Puget Systems.
How To Use Linux Kernel Boot Options
This post is a short HowTo on passing Linux kernel boot options during OS installation and persisting them for future system starts
Problems With RTX4090 MultiGPU and AMD vs Intel vs RTX6000Ada or RTX3090
I was prompted to do some testing by a commenter on one of my recent posts. They had concerns about problems with dual NVIDIA RTX4090s on AMD Threadripper Pro platforms. I ran some applications to reproduce the problems reported above and tried to dig deeper into the issues with more extensive testing. The included table below tells all!
Ryzen 7950x Zen4 AVX512 Performance With AMD AOCCv4 HPL HPCG HPL-MxP
This post is a first-look at performance of the Ryzen7 7950x CPU using the latest AMD compiler release with support for Zen4 arch including AVX512 vector instructions. Performance is tested using the HPC standard benchmarks, HPL (High Performance Linpack), HPCG (High Performance Conjugate Gradient) and the newer HPC Top500 benchmark, HPL-MxP (formerly HPL-AI).
