We asked an old friend of the editorial team about this - Peter Beck, Field Product Manager Workstations and Rugged at Dell Technologies in Germany. With many years of experience and access to the latest toys, and in contact with all kinds of users and developers, we naively asked him what it takes.
Peter has been with Dell Technologies for over 15 years, and has had every kind of contact with workstation users from Support Specialist to Workstation Consultancy to System Engineering and now Field Product Manager, and hopefully distils our questions down to the essentials.
DP: What hardware do you actually need to run Firefly, GPT4 or Stable Diffusion, for example?Peter Beck: We have to make a distinction here between diffusion and transformer modelling, but we mustn't forget GANs either. Depending on the number of parameters contained in an LLM, you can run it locally and offline on a notebook. I have already successfully tested this myself with a LlaMa-7B model on a two-year-old not...
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