Personal DL box

[balnazzar (Andrea de Luca)]

I recommend ECC memory, preferably registered, and at least 40 lanes.

No need to spend a fortune. You can buy all the necessary hardware on ebay. Look for Xeon E5 first or second generation.

Useful resource:

A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning — Tim Dettmers

My rig:

How to use Multiple GPUs?

In case you are curious, I did it as per your advice. Two PSUs with add2psu, and a large case specifically engineered for supporting them. Also posting it here for someone else who seeks to build a multi-gpu rig with appropriate lanes and power. The good thing is that all this contraption was not expensive (100 euros the case, 67 euros the second psu, 6 euros the add2psu). The xeon-e5v2 workstation has been bought crap cheap from ebay. The only expensive things were the GPUs (1080ti + 1070),…