Posted by theanonymousone 7 hours ago
You'll be glad you did.
What good does it do to stick your head in the sand?
CPUs are great for orchestrating work, GPUs are great for actually doing the work.
Right, and wouldn't it be really nice if we could check on our orchestrators to make sure their not bottlenecking ops?
"How come we can fully load the GPUs?" "Idk boss, amelius said htop et al were irrelevant so we can't really investigate"
Get the fuck out. I do write for GPU as well. One does not replace the other.
No one's doing database management on GPUs. No one's scraping data on GPUs. Can't run VMs on GPUs. Can't run web servers on GPU...
If you’re a 3D rendering designer, an ML engineer or a crypto bro, then sure.
Here are the common workloads (for the average SWE on HN) that use CPU/RAM:
- compilation/builds
- language servers and IDEs
- test suites
- local containers
- local databases
- node tooling
- browsers
- data processing
- compression and encryption
- searching/indexing
(Happened to me)