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I'd like to prevent building a completely new server just to run a gpu for AI workloads. Currently, everything is running on my laptop, except it's dated cpu only really works well for smaller models.

Now I have an nvidia m40, could I possibly get it to work using thunderbolt and an enclosure or something? note: it's on linux

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

If you've got a thunderbolt port on your laptop and a thunderbolt dock on your laptop then there's no reason why it shouldn't work.

I'm not familiar with thunderbolt on linux, but on windows you plug it in and it just works™️ and shows up as if it was inside your machine. Your DE on linux might automatically do it, but if you're command line only you'll probably have to run a command first.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

I did some more searching, and found that nvme to pci-e adapters are affordable. That's going to look a bit janky, but fortunately I don't care.

Thank you again for the suggestion!

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