Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedGeorge Hotz: evaluation
20 Jun 2023 Latent Space Commoditizing the Petaflop — with George Hotz of the tiny corp
“0. No PCIe extender I've tested, and I've bought 20 of them, works at PCIe 4.0. So you're going to need PCIe re-drivers.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- George Hotz
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 20 Jun 2023
- Publisher
- Latent Space
Transcript context
…So are you doing water? No, I'm not using that chassis. Okay, so now you want to get six GPUs in a computer. So that's a big challenge. You're like, oh, I'll just use a PCIe extenders. I saw it online as tech tips. It works great. No, it doesn't. Try PCIe extenders that work at PCIe 4.0 and interconnect bandwidth, super important. They don't work at 3. 0. No PCIe extender I've tested, and I've bought 20 of them, works at PCIe 4.0. So you're going to need PCIe re-drivers. Now, okay, how much is that adding cost, right? Like these things all get really hard. And then tiny boxes, I've even had another constraint to it. I want this thing to be silent, not totally silent, but my limit is like 45, maybe 50 DB, but not super micro machine, 60 DB. We have a small, we have a compute cluster at comma. You gotta wear ear protection to go in there. Like- Yeah, I've seen some videos where you give a tour. Oh yeah. It's noisy. It's super loud.…
Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.