Hi! So I’m considering…maybe having an NPU or something similar to be hooked to my proxmox server, which runs in a mini PC. It’s a EliteDesk 800 micro form factor. It has a Core i5 8500 CPU, which at the moment of purchase was good enough for live encoding HEVC video on Jellyfin…that was my main concern back then. But I’d like to consider the possibility of hooking maybe some docker instances or other containers to some local-only AI acceleration. Is there any NPU or cheap GPU I could hook on USB to this proxmox server to run? Has it been done before?

Thanks!

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I wish more modern TPUs were available for purchase. Google’s TPU v8i is very powerful, but you can only rent it via Google Cloud. (that and they’re most useful in big clusters, and the pricing for such a cluster is definitely out of reach for anyone that’s not running their own data center)