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Non-standard hardware kind of implies dedicated servers. And multiple dedicated machine pools instead of a single shared one add a lot of ops complexity and are
by jsnell 12y ago
Non-standard hardware kind of implies dedicated servers. And multiple dedicated machine pools instead of a single shared one add a lot of ops complexity and are very bad for getting good utilization. If the GPUs aren't standard hardware, I'd be surprised if you could get them deployed in a Google data center in just months.
- angersock 12y agoYeah, that sounds like a bunch of red tape, justified or no.
- DannyBee 12y agoIt is a bunch of red tape. Imagine 16 different groups all want 1000 GPU's, each decided they want a different type. Ignoring even the GPU's for a second, somebody has to support programming them (now you get a whole bunch of incompatible GPU toolchains), etc. Especially for something expected to be long term, it would be stupid to let this happen en masse without at least some different folks sitting down and talking about it, which is red tape.