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>"Nvidia contractually prohibits the use of GeForce and Titan cards in datacenters. So Amazon and other providers have to use the $8,500 datacenter version of t
by bogomipz 8y ago
>"Nvidia contractually prohibits the use of GeForce and Titan cards in datacenters. So Amazon and other providers have to use the $8,500 datacenter version of the GPUs, and they have to charge a lot for renting it."
I wonder if someone might provide some clarification on this. Is this to say only if a reseller buys directly from Nvidia they are compelled by some agreement they signed with Nvidia? How else would this legal for Nvidia to dictate how and where someone is allowed to use their product? Thanks.
- uryga 8y agoAnother comment in this thread said that it's due to the license on Nvidia's drivers. So technically you can use the hardware in a datacenter, just not with the official drivers. Unfortunately it seems that the open-source drivers aren't usable for most datacenter purposes, so this effectively limits how you can use the hardware (at least in North America, where they can enforce it).
- bogomipz 8y agoWow so the drivers serve as a form of license key. I wonder how long before AWS develops its own GPUs.