An introduction to NPU hardware and its growing presence outside of mobile computing devices.
Local alternatives to Cloud AI services
Presenting local AI-powered software options for tasks such as image & text generation, automatic speech recognition, and frame interpolation.
AMD Zen4 Threadripper PRO vs Intel Xeon-w9 For Science and Engineering
The performance improvement with the new Zen4 TrPRO over the Zen3 TrPRO is very impressive!
My first recommendation for a Scientific and Engineering workstation CPU would now be the AMD Zen4 architecture as either Zen4 Threadripper PRO or Zen4 EPYC for multi-socket systems.
Benchmarking with TensorRT-LLM
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.
