[Pomrose]

I have no clue what machine to spec, what with all the ramped up prices for gpu and no news about multi gpu.

[Daniel Kerbler 20180222194640]

so you are running these ..but whats running on 'em??
chess engine?

[dmeyer]

I have no clue what machine to spec, what with all the ramped up prices for gpu and no news about multi gpu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMKvNNTTEcg&t=3228s

[JDHill]

so you are running these ..but whats running on 'em??
chess engine?

Mining cryptos for now... those particular cards (vega frontier edition) are fairly worthless for most purposes, but happen to excel at mining a particular type of crypto.

[dmeyer]

so you are running these ..but whats running on 'em??
chess engine?

Mining cryptos for now... those particular cards (vega frontier edition) are fairly worthless for most purposes, but happen to excel at mining a particular type of crypto.

Is this why you are leaving us? Crypto tycoon?

[Mihai]

so you are running these ..but whats running on 'em??
chess engine?

Mining cryptos for now... those particular cards (vega frontier edition) are fairly worthless for most purposes, but happen to excel at mining a particular type of crypto.

Is this why you are leaving us? Crypto tycoon?

mining a particular type of crypto

Does it come from a country where they drink a lot of fermented potatoes?

[JDHill]

Crypto comes from nowhere, sir. In this case, literally -- the author of the algorithm in question (CryptoNight) published their work pseudonymously, and like the author of Bitcoin, has ever remained unknown.

And unfortunately, no tycoon, just paying some of the bills, more like... hardware/gadget addiction rationalized as a passive source of income.

[dmeyer]

White waiting for Maxwell multi-GPU: some scaling tests

Note that the scenes are different so this is not to compare times between engines, just scaling.

[arcmos]

Thanks dmeyer!

Very helpful. Interesting is the time difference 3xGPU vs. CPU+3xGPU (hybrid)

[dmeyer]

Turns out that co-op mode works fine on GPU.

A production scene here just now on Dual Xeon 6154: 87 minutes (CPU)

Same scene split across 11 1080 Ti: 5 minutes