mlco2 / codecarbon

Track emissions from Compute and recommend ways to reduce their impact on the environment.
https://mlco2.github.io/codecarbon
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Compatibility matrix #469

Open inimaz opened 1 year ago

inimaz commented 1 year ago

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Goal: A new user comes with OS X + GPU Y + CPU Z. Is codecarbon compatible with her system? If so, how to install it? What are the limitations?

Codecarbon uses different tools to measure each CPU/GPU/hardware. Each of these tools have their own limitations and installation steps. Sometimes they depend on the OS of the machine.

It would be very interesting to have a centralized file explaining to which systems codecarbon is compatible. In this file we could explain:

benoit-cty commented 1 year ago

Good Idea, I've started a diagram in https://app.diagrams.net/#Hmlco2%2Fcodecarbon%2Fuse-cpu-load%2Fdocs%2Fedit%2Fcpu_fallback.drawio image