Need help for machine learning rig

[Hitkul]

Hi,

We are planning to build a new rig for our research group. It would be used for Machine Learning/ Deep Learning projects. We deal with text, image, and video data.

We want our system to have 4 Nvidia GTX1080Ti. No SLI, so multiple students can use it at a time(one student can use 1 GPU). 

Apart from this, we want to have 

RAM - 64 GB (we may increase it to 128GB if we would have budget left after getting everything else)

A 512GB SSD for OS and current project.

A 4TB HDD for long-term storage

 

What CPU and Motherboard do you guys suggest for optimal performance?

How many PCIe lanes my CPU should support so it does not become a bottleneck for my GPUs?

Do we need a dual CPU setup or a single CPU would do the job?

Anything else we should keep in mind while building this rig?

 

Additional information:-

1. Budget & Location

We are from INDIA and have a budget of 5,00,000 INR.

2. Aim

Machine Learning/ Deep Learning projects

3. Monitors and Peripherals

No monitors and peripherals, it would be a remote access rig.

4.OS

Ubuntu

 

Thank you 

Edited April 27, 2018 by Hitkul

[limegorilla]

23 minutes ago, Hitkul said:

Hi,

We are planning to build a new rig for our research group. It would be used for Machine Learning/ Deep Learning projects. We deal with text, image, and video data.

We want our system to have 4 Nvidia GTX1080Ti. No SLI, so multiple students can use it at a time(one student can use 1 GPU). 

Apart from this, we want to have 

RAM - 64 GB (we may increase it to 128GB if we would have budget left after getting everything else)

A 512GB SSD for OS and current project.

A 4TB HDD for long-term storage

 

What CPU and Motherboard do you guys suggest for optimal performance?

Anything else we should keep in mind while building this rig?

 

Additional information:-

1. Budget & Location

We are from INDIA and have a budget of 5,00,000 INR.

2. Aim

Machine Learning/ Deep Learning projects

3. Monitors and Peripherals

No monitors and peripherals, it would be a remote access rig.

4.OS

Ubuntu

 

Thank you 

As far as a CPU (without having experience, but imo) you should get at least an X299 i9 or Xeon chip form Intel or one of the higher level Threadrippers.