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by dsign 1544 days ago
I like CUDA, that stuff works and is rewarding to use. The only problem is the tons and tons of hoops one must jump to use it in servers. Because a server with a GPU is so expensive, you can't just rent one and have it running 24x7 if you don't have work for it to do, so you need a serverless or auto-scaling deployment. That increases your development workload. Then there is the matter of renting a server with GPU; that's still a bit of a specialty offering. Until the other day, even major cloud providers (i.e. AWS and Google) offered GPUs only in certain datacenters.
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Luckily, you can run CUDA code on even a cheap GTX 1050, so you can test locally and run the full size job on a big V100/A100/H100 system.