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Dell R720 / R730s, dual GPU (typically with K40m or K80) in there with 1100W dual redundant PSUs and the GPU enablement kit. We also set our fans to constant 70
by arnon 9y ago
Dell R720 / R730s, dual GPU (typically with K40m or K80) in there with 1100W dual redundant PSUs and the GPU enablement kit.
We also set our fans to constant 70% min, to keep the airflow good.
On some servers we introduced the GTX 1080, either along-side a K40/K80 or two per chassis (see http://arnon.dk/how-does-the-nvidia-gtx-1080-stack-up-against-the-nvidia-tesla-k40/ http://arnon.dk/how-does-the-nvidia-gtx-1080-stack-up-agains...).
They actually work 15% faster on average compared to the Tesla K series (Remember it's a 5 year old card), but they just stop working after a few months, or return inconsistent results for some operations.
Now, we're not doing graphics with them. We have a GPU database called SQream DB - and we depend on the results to be correct. In the end, they didn't make a lot of sense for us to deploy in a production environment, so back to the Tesla series we went.