{
  "id": 347839,
  "title": "RAM and GPU needed for this comp",
  "url": "/competitions/rsna-2022-cervical-spine-fracture-detection/discussion/347839",
  "author_name": "Ranjeet",
  "post_date": "2022-08-25T15:17:20.547000",
  "votes": 7,
  "comment_count": 0,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Given the size of training data, wondering what kind of RAM or GPU you folks are using? Thanks!</p>\n<p><strong>Update [09/19/22]</strong>: I looked into this, and thanks to PNG training image data and through a controlled <em>batch size</em> during training; 8 GB GPU and 30 GB RAM can work. I haven't tried this locally, but even smaller RAM would work, for example in Kaggle's public notebooks.</p>\n<p>Needless to say, higher RAM and better GPU would be better.  </p>",
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      "postDate": "2022-08-25T15:17:20.547Z",
      "content": "<p>Given the size of training data, wondering what kind of RAM or GPU you folks are using? Thanks!</p>\n<p><strong>Update [09/19/22]</strong>: I looked into this, and thanks to PNG training image data and through a controlled <em>batch size</em> during training; 8 GB GPU and 30 GB RAM can work. I haven't tried this locally, but even smaller RAM would work, for example in Kaggle's public notebooks.</p>\n<p>Needless to say, higher RAM and better GPU would be better.  </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Given the size of training data, wondering what kind of RAM or GPU you folks are using? Thanks!\n\n\n**Update [09/19/22]**: I looked into this, and thanks to PNG training image data and through a controlled *batch size* during training; 8 GB GPU and 30 GB RAM can work. I haven't tried this locally, but even smaller RAM would work, for example in Kaggle's public notebooks.\n\nNeedless to say, higher RAM and better GPU would be better.  ",
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    "1913915": "Given the size of training data, wondering what kind of RAM or GPU you folks are using? Thanks!\n\n\n**Update [09/19/22]**: I looked into this, and thanks to PNG training image data and through a controlled *batch size* during training; 8 GB GPU and 30 GB RAM can work. I haven't tried this locally, but even smaller RAM would work, for example in Kaggle's public notebooks.\n\nNeedless to say, higher RAM and better GPU would be better.  "
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