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>Nvidia also spends a metric shit ton of money to make sure professors use and teach on their platform. Do you have a source for this claim? Or do you simply m
by fngjdflmdflg 2y ago
>Nvidia also spends a metric shit ton of money to make sure professors use and teach on their platform.
Do you have a source for this claim? Or do you simply mean that since they spend money making it better that professors end up using it on their own accord?
- flakiness 2y agoThey co-author the definitive CUDA textbook, and it's based on their sponsored class (You can find the story in the intro of the book.) https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Massively-Parallel-Processors-Hands/dp/0123814723 https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Massively-Parallel-Proces...
- YetAnotherNick 2y agoCo authoring a book is not "metric shit ton of money".
- chaostheory 2y agoNo, I think it’s a source for the claim and not the actual evidence of what they spent it on.
- physicsguy 2y agoI hold an NVidia instructors cert from when I worked in academia. They even give you access to hardware while you’re running courses on it. It’s super easy and totally free.
- nojvek 2y agoI won an Nvidia GPU while I was doing my advanced graphics course for making custom shaders. Had to buy a new power supply just so I could use it.