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> Still not sure why competitors don't have their GPU's offered in cloud services. AMD has many GPGPUs, but while they have kind of ok-ish raw numbers, their s
by fluffything 6y ago
> Still not sure why competitors don't have their GPU's offered in cloud services.
AMD has many GPGPUs, but while they have kind of ok-ish raw numbers, their software stack makes quite poor use of them.
Users care about perf/$, and nvidia is king there. For deep-learning and other apps, hardware without software is useless.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoAnd if the population is not uniform (and it never is, as its a growing market and new resources have different feature sets) it can be hard to deploy some hardware-sensitive applications. We needed hardware support for encryption in our teleconferencing mix node. Had to contract specially, so we could deploy only on hardware that supported that (was modern enough).