{
  "id": 576038,
  "title": "Working with large sequence RNA almost fried my GPU and CPU!",
  "url": "/competitions/stanford-rna-3d-folding/discussion/576038",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-05-02T10:26:33.420870100Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 2,
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  "content": "<p>I noticed that because of PyTorch and the loading cache, I only have about 8GB of GPU memory left. But when I try to process large sequences, it crashes both my GPU and CPU, so I can't predict the structure. Should I limit the sequence length or adjust PyTorch's memory allocator?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "3191980",
      "postDate": "05/02/2025 10:26:33",
      "content": "<p>I noticed that because of PyTorch and the loading cache, I only have about 8GB of GPU memory left. But when I try to process large sequences, it crashes both my GPU and CPU, so I can't predict the structure. Should I limit the sequence length or adjust PyTorch's memory allocator?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I noticed that because of PyTorch and the loading cache, I only have about 8GB of GPU memory left. But when I try to process large sequences, it crashes both my GPU and CPU, so I can't predict the structure. Should I limit the sequence length or adjust PyTorch's memory allocator?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3192190",
      "postDate": "05/02/2025 14:56:51",
      "content": "<p>What is your length of RNA?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "What is your length of RNA?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3192209",
      "postDate": "05/02/2025 15:27:15",
      "content": "<p>I have identified an RNA sequence here with a length of approximately 700 nucleotides. To address this, I have implemented a maximum length threshold to bypass it.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have identified an RNA sequence here with a length of approximately 700 nucleotides. To address this, I have implemented a maximum length threshold to bypass it.",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3192190,
      "author_name": "ilyakupchenko",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/02/2025 14:56:51",
      "content": "<p>What is your length of RNA?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3192209,
          "author_name": "nigmatrahim4",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "05/02/2025 15:27:15",
          "content": "<p>I have identified an RNA sequence here with a length of approximately 700 nucleotides. To address this, I have implemented a maximum length threshold to bypass it.</p>",
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        }
      ]
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    "3191980": "I noticed that because of PyTorch and the loading cache, I only have about 8GB of GPU memory left. But when I try to process large sequences, it crashes both my GPU and CPU, so I can't predict the structure. Should I limit the sequence length or adjust PyTorch's memory allocator?",
    "3192190": "What is your length of RNA?",
    "3192209": "I have identified an RNA sequence here with a length of approximately 700 nucleotides. To address this, I have implemented a maximum length threshold to bypass it."
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