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asdff | on: Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy
Seems everyone in this thread is assuming I am saying go to private third party compute. No. Build your own cluster on metal you own on property you own, and have your team use that and just some thin clients to write with. Your compute goes way further. Your cluster can be going 100% of the time with jobs queued up by your team. All that memory you buy for your team in macbooks is idle and unavailable when your employee closes the lid and tosses it into the bag into the car on the way home. It could be used 24/7. On hardware you own. For cheaper to build I'm sure than apple hardware tax. On easier OS to manage and no doubt deal with anything involving any sort of heavy compute work than OS X. Are we really going to waste resources with docker when we could be using a node completely? Come on.

Like I said, seems HPC is lost art. All four sub replies missed that in my original comment.

eddythompson80 | parent | next
Your main argument is about better allocation for that RAM, which only makes sense in the conditions of a shortage. If RAM is plentiful, like it’s bound to be once the datacenters craze is over, that argument becomes “why does every apartment need a washer/dryer when we can have shared washers/dryers in a common area that are being used 100% of the time”. The answer is “because we can and it’s not that huge of a difference” plus you can have both. Like you can have a server cluster for large batch jobs, and personal ones for personal use.

For individuals though, it’s the same reason plenty of people pay for the 2tb or 4tb SSD for their laptops or desktops even though NAS has been a thing for 40 years. Maintaining a “server” of any sort is a completely separate endeavor for most. Just like a NAS is a no-brainer for many and non-starter for many more.

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throwaway277432 | parent | next
It's investors making these decisions. They would rather have predictable cloud spend than trying any experiments with high cap-ex. Has been this way since AWS is a thing.

Not saying they're right.

monegator | parent
yes. People do not read.

I agree with you, and i would like to set up a server at work for local inference but we simply do not have the knowledge, it's much easier to get a couple of AI Max machines that are good enough for me and the boss which i convinced on the good points on running clankers locally and be done with it (though my plan is to use the AI MAX machines to figure out what the infrastructure and workflow will look like, and at some point ask for the investment)

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