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iturnedintoanewt@iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world

Any external NPU that can be hooked to a proxmox miniPC?

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!

𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍@maniel@sopuli.xyz

Replying to @⁨iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world⁩

google coral is what you need, there’s also an m.2 pcie version, also intel igpu also has limited AI capabilities through openvino, i use it to accelerate AI features in Immich (face and object recognition) on my N100 based NAS, but it’s a bit too slow for Frigate realtime object recognition for example

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