From my experience, accessing system RAM from the GPU is so slow, it might as well count as "does not work". It's orders of magnitudes faster to memcpy large swaths of memory that you are going to use to the GPU, rather than accessing system mem from a kernel which then takes ages to wait for that small block/page of memory, then waits again for the next small page/block of memory, etc. Latency hiding doesnt work anymore if the latency is that large.
You’re right for some workloads, but not all of them. The same could have been said for disk swap since the beginning though, and people still found it valuable. Disk swapping with spinning drives did used to be multiple orders of magnitude slower than RAM. But it prevented applications or the system from crashing.
Using system memory from the GPU isn’t that bad if your compute is high enough and you don’t transfer that much data. There are commercial applications that support it and only see low 2-digit percentage perf impact and not the multiples you might expect. Plus on Windows on Nvidia hardware, the driver will automatically use system memory if you oversubscribe VRAM, and I believe this was introduced to support running Stable Diffusion on smaller GPUs.
Anecdote: yesterday i exported my bookmarks into an html file and then asked for a script that will make a webpage out of them. with a search. and favicon download from domain. better than any bookmark bar imho.
This is a great idea, thanks. I built an IPv6 only webhost in Digital Ocean a while ago as a learning exercise and it’s been sitting idle. Making a personal portal sounds like a fun project.
3 hours for 30 miles is probaby an error, or an exaggeration, but knowing the traffic on the Maryland side of that metro area, it really is quite bad..
this is the correct affect. you lose money while they win an imagined IP violation, then someone posts a copy of your item with text that avoids their system and they make money there too.
I work at a enterprise tech company that has kinda of a monopoly on its market. The hate I get when I mention I work there is so big… I can only imagine what a MS Teams dev would get these days. The worst is when they complain about the UI… when I’m one of the few frontend focused devs there.
I’ve had a government worker stop processing my request and start complaining about the product I build. Lost a good half an hour trying to understand their bug but we didn’t get anywhere
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