Interesting! I had only heard of them as cheap gaming boxes. Didn't know they were being used for cheap inference, too, but it makes sense.
reply> They hold a special place in my heart because I deployed 20k
Sounds like something I'd love to hear more about if you can share
ethereum mining, long shut down...
replyThis needs a blog post & HN submission
replyCool stuff. Just read: https://github.com/akandr/bc250
replyYea, I'm bummed I didn't know about the 40-CU unlock, although it probably wouldn't have had much impact on mining performance. It still would have been neat to test. I did build a whole automated solution for auto-tuning each individual board. It would start at the "best" settings and then downgrade every time there was a crash. If it wasn't crashing, then those were the new "best" settings for that individual chip.
replyWow holy crap this is news to me! I will have to consider picking some of these up for testing, what is it like working with them?
replythere is a discord server for fans of bc-250... lots of information there.
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