Likewise. I have a huge demand personally to run AI noise-filtering models on many TB per month of raw video files. It takes about 3 days per file.
Apples ProRes codec is only licensed to run in high quality mode on a Mac, and so my Nvidia PC can’t do what I need. Thus, I own the beefiest Mac Studio you can currently buy. I would pay more for more TFlops.
I have done local LLM on there but it wasn’t interesting. Far worse performance and intelligence per dollar than the cloud boys.
There is no cloud offering for my video needs though.
Have you looked into those tinycorp nvidia drivers for thunderbolt egpus on Mac?
Out of curiosity, how would you transfer many TB to cloud and back if such service was available?
My guess is that it wouldn’t be TB sized files.
It’s probably files that, over the course of a month, add up to multiple TBs.
Which would suggest that a 1Gbit fibre connection would be adequate. For serious commercial usage, multi Gbit fibre is available in many places around the world.
Although being video files, they could easily be in the TB range. In which case, it would be interesting to know!
10mbps constant = ~3TiB a month, which is close to what I assume they're doing to acquire the video (that's about what a few SD x264 streams would run). So you don't even need a fast connection, per se.
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