# Transformer/Pipelines Tutorial - where is it running?
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**Author:**  [@archimack](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Farchimack)%5C
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Ftransformer-pipelines-tutorial-where-is-it-running%2F34501%2F1 "2023-03-23T17:57:58Z")
Hey HuggingFace Experts - thank you for all the work you do supporting the community. I’m a noob running the Transformers tutorial, got to the pipeline tutorial here [Pipelines for inference](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/pipeline_tutorial).
Through my terminal, I did the pip install within a virtual environment (.env), then pip install transformers, and then torch.
I then moved on to the MLK example, successfully running it with wav2vec2 and then whisper-large - awesome!
I also successfully used it to transcribe some local mp3 files - awesome! awesome!
When following the instructions to set up whisper, it seemed to auto download a 6.7GB file from HF to my machine.
Q’s
- What exactly is this file i downloaded? the model itself, the weights?
- Is this file saved on my machine persistently, does it get trashed when i shut down the terminal and virtual environment (.env)?
- if so, any help finding the file?
- am I running this model locally on my CPU/GPU or on HuggingFace CPU/GPU?
Thank you for the assitance.
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**Author:**  [@stevhliu](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fstevhliu)%5C
**Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Ftransformer-pipelines-tutorial-where-is-it-running%2F34501%2F2 "2023-03-24T17:09:17Z")
Hi there!
- You’re downloading the files [here](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large/tree/main) required to run the model - weights, configurations, etc.
- The files are saved to your cache (` ~/.cache/huggingface/hub`), you can read more about it [here](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/installation#cache-setup) if you want to save your files somewhere else.
- The model is running locally on your hardware 🙂
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**Author:**  [@archimack](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Farchimack)%5C
**Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Ftransformer-pipelines-tutorial-where-is-it-running%2F34501%2F3 "2023-03-25T16:49:31Z")
Thank you very much for taking the time to answer! 🤗
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**Author:**  [@bugslife](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fbugslife)%5C
**Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 2:29am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Ftransformer-pipelines-tutorial-where-is-it-running%2F34501%2F4 "2023-12-04T02:29:23Z")
could you explain a bit for how to assess the local hardware spec for running the model before download such size model file?
I reviewed the `model card` tab but see nothing directly about it. or just simply caculate based on the `Model size of params`?
As a individual developer, the RTX gaming GPU is the popular choice I believe.