Deep learning is a very exciting field to be part of right now. New model architectures, especially those trained with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), have enabled machines to do everything from defeating the world’s best human Go players to composing “classical music”. We wanted to take advantage of its applications in speech and language modeling, and started with AWS G2 instances. We soon found that training even very simple models on a small portion of our data took days at a time, so we decided to build our own rig with specialized hardware. Continue reading “Building a Custom Deep Learning Rig”