Stephen Downes

Everything discussed in this post is way beyond my budget, though I suppose if I splurged I could rent a GPU for maybe an hour once in a while. Buying is out of the question with costs ranging from $3,000 to more than $10K. Institutions and departments with budgets, though, are looking at exactly this problem. Everyone knows the prince for GPUs is inflated right now. The question is, what will prices look like in the future. The best advice in the article is that, if you're considering buying, be sure to rent what you plan to buy to test how it actually performs under your planned load. The article also has numerous tables and examples of different loads, giving you a good guide on the subject.