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The amount of devices is what is completely irrelevant. It's all about performance per dollar.
by BLanen 9y ago
The amount of devices is what is completely irrelevant.
It's all about performance per dollar.
- twtw 9y agoSure, for a customer. But from a technological point of view, performance per dollar doesn't tell us everything. A company could subsidize their compute service and get astounding perf/dollar with a not particularly impressive chip. I'd like to know perf/watt, for instance, even if it doesn't matter to the customer.
- boulos 9y agoDisclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Not necessarily. The DGX-1, for example, has pretty poor perf/$$ but reduces the time a data scientist spends waiting. For some organizations, their people time is so valuable that what matters is “what gets me my answers back faster”, because that employee is easily $100/hr+. That’s actually why the 8xV100 with NVLINK is so attractive (and why the TPUs also have board to board networking, not just chip to chip).