New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are there any interesting workloads to stress test GPUs?
Ask HN: Are there any interesting workloads to stress test GPUs?
4 by tryauuum | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Sometimes I have to stress test GPUs. I usually run gpu-burn, but this just wastes cycles and generates heat for 24 hours. It would be cooler to run something which produces meaningful output. (I think) I cannot run any training because the test might be interrupted any second. And even checkpoints won't help because I won't always have the option to resume the training on another machine -- another machine might have different model of GPUs or different amount of them. I tried generating thousands of images of cats in hats with sdxl but it quickly becomes boring. If only there was a simple way to e.g. generate images and have a step that automatically judges them so that I could have a result of a several uniquely beautiful images. Or if I could generate songs lyrics and have a step which checks how well they rhyme. How would you stress test a GPU so that it produces some interesting artifacts as a side effect?
4 by tryauuum | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Sometimes I have to stress test GPUs. I usually run gpu-burn, but this just wastes cycles and generates heat for 24 hours. It would be cooler to run something which produces meaningful output. (I think) I cannot run any training because the test might be interrupted any second. And even checkpoints won't help because I won't always have the option to resume the training on another machine -- another machine might have different model of GPUs or different amount of them. I tried generating thousands of images of cats in hats with sdxl but it quickly becomes boring. If only there was a simple way to e.g. generate images and have a step that automatically judges them so that I could have a result of a several uniquely beautiful images. Or if I could generate songs lyrics and have a step which checks how well they rhyme. How would you stress test a GPU so that it produces some interesting artifacts as a side effect?
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