Nvidia Wants To Prohibit Consumer GPU Use In Datacenters
quad damage
AMD must be loving
this news? I wonder if an open
source driver will emerge, maybe a port of OpenCL?
Nvidia has banned the use of its GeForce and Titan gaming graphics cards in data centers -- forcing organizations to fork out for more expensive gear, like its latest Tesla V100 chips. The chip-design giant updated its GeForce and Titan software licensing in the past few days, adding a new clause that reads: "No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted."
Article - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/01/07/0010221/nvidia-wants-to-prohibit-consumer-gpu-use-in-datacenters
Nvidia has banned the use of its GeForce and Titan gaming graphics cards in data centers -- forcing organizations to fork out for more expensive gear, like its latest Tesla V100 chips. The chip-design giant updated its GeForce and Titan software licensing in the past few days, adding a new clause that reads: "No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted."
Article - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/01/07/0010221/nvidia-wants-to-prohibit-consumer-gpu-use-in-datacenters
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At first this seems a bit nonsensical, but it kind of makes sense. Also it's worth mentioning they don't block you from doing Cryptomining.
They probably don't want loads of support mails for features not working when those features were only available on Quadro/Tesla chips. Also the data has to be safely managed, a GeForce card is optimized for speed rather than accuracy so it's potentially bad news for Nvidia if their Geforce cards spew incorrect output that leads to a particular product being defective.