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I think Nvidia should try to create an compute-analogue of wifi routers where computation will be offloaded to smart-home gpu-servers. This strategy will cement

I think Nvidia should try to create an compute-analogue of wifi routers where computation will be offloaded to smart-home gpu-servers. This strategy will cement their future for eternity.

dartos 2y ago
Why sell to consumers when you can sell to large corporations at 10x the price?
- talldayo 2y ago
  Because consumers will pay ~3-5x MSRP if the hype is big enough.
  - jszymborski 2y ago
    Corps aren't impervious to hype either.
david-gpu 2y ago
Something in that spirit is already making progress: compute attached to cell phone towers, called "edge computing". Because you are pooling computer resources across many more users you have better amortized cost than if you had a workstation on every home that was idle 99% of the time. Of course, latency and bandwidth to the cell tower is worse than wifi, but better than if the compute is done on a remote server. I have no idea of which model will succeed for which use cases, but the idea is sound.
- giancarlostoro 2y ago
  Not sure how well this would scale if every users needing to compute all at once. Which all it takes is some meme new app that requires heavy computation and then everyone downloads it.
  - david-gpu 2y ago
    It has the same scalability issues and the same scalability solutions as cell towers themselves, doesn't it? Densely populated areas have more cell towers and thus smaller cells. Again: which computation paradigm works best depends on the use case. It is not an all or nothing situation.
- nthingtohide 2y ago
  Smart mirror, smart appliances, smart robots (of various kinds), all could benefit from such a central compute server which can work without internet. All appliances will have voice interface, and will require heavy intelligence so it is better if the model is downloaded to a central place at home. This model also means all home appliances can be equally smart with no restriction on form factor of the appliances themselves. Nvidia could model itself around current mobile companies selling OS, models, everything in a nice compute-rack package.
Teever 2y ago
I think there's a definite itch to scratch with this kind of stuff and you can see hobbyists already tinkering on the edges with things like home assistant and the homelabs community. As much as there are market drivers to make the cloud attractive to businesses and legitimate reasons why cloud solutions are better than alternatives there is a real desire in a growing number of people to have a solution that they can tinker with but that also has a polished UI so they don't have to tinker with it when they don't want to.
penjelly 2y ago
funny I landed on this idea myself but ended up thinking it had no value

I think Nvidia should try to create an compute-analogue of wifi routers where computation will be offloaded to smart-home gpu-servers. This strategy will cement their future for eternity.

dartos 2y ago

Why sell to consumers when you can sell to large corporations at 10x the price?

talldayo 2y ago
Because consumers will pay ~3-5x MSRP if the hype is big enough.
- jszymborski 2y ago
  Corps aren't impervious to hype either.

david-gpu 2y ago

Something in that spirit is already making progress: compute attached to cell phone towers, called "edge computing". Because you are pooling computer resources across many more users you have better amortized cost than if you had a workstation on every home that was idle 99% of the time. Of course, latency and bandwidth to the cell tower is worse than wifi, but better than if the compute is done on a remote server. I have no idea of which model will succeed for which use cases, but the idea is sound.

giancarlostoro 2y ago
Not sure how well this would scale if every users needing to compute all at once. Which all it takes is some meme new app that requires heavy computation and then everyone downloads it.
- david-gpu 2y ago
  It has the same scalability issues and the same scalability solutions as cell towers themselves, doesn't it? Densely populated areas have more cell towers and thus smaller cells. Again: which computation paradigm works best depends on the use case. It is not an all or nothing situation.
nthingtohide 2y ago
Smart mirror, smart appliances, smart robots (of various kinds), all could benefit from such a central compute server which can work without internet. All appliances will have voice interface, and will require heavy intelligence so it is better if the model is downloaded to a central place at home. This model also means all home appliances can be equally smart with no restriction on form factor of the appliances themselves. Nvidia could model itself around current mobile companies selling OS, models, everything in a nice compute-rack package.

Teever 2y ago

I think there's a definite itch to scratch with this kind of stuff and you can see hobbyists already tinkering on the edges with things like home assistant and the homelabs community. As much as there are market drivers to make the cloud attractive to businesses and legitimate reasons why cloud solutions are better than alternatives there is a real desire in a growing number of people to have a solution that they can tinker with but that also has a polished UI so they don't have to tinker with it when they don't want to.

penjelly 2y ago

funny I landed on this idea myself but ended up thinking it had no value