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There's a big gap between the price of NVidia link servers and servers with a bunch of 1080ti's or Titans in them. I think that this must be to do with commodit

by sgt101 10y ago

There's a big gap between the price of NVidia link servers and servers with a bunch of 1080ti's or Titans in them. I think that this must be to do with commodity production and pricing. GPU's are sold to gamers. Gamers want 60fps 4k gaming and there is a large market for cards that support this. I want GPU's to train neural networks - but I think that very few businesses are buying 20 GPU's and sticking them in servers. Even fewer are buying 20 NVidia link systems. There is a market here, but it's small and hard for a gaming company to address. I think NVidia know that there is a lot here for them, but they must look at the numbers and wonder.

jacquesm 10y ago
> but I think that very few businesses are buying 20 GPU's and sticking them in servers. No, they're not buying 20, they're buying 100's. And not just for deep learning either, CFD and all kinds of other computationally expensive algorithms are more and more found on clusters of servers with GPUs in them instead of mainframes. There is definitely a huge shift happening there.