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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:39PM (#21596906)
> The counterargument would be that they've deployed a ton of network capacity and GPU resources for cloud computing anyway, and so Stadia is just riding on those coattails... But it's certainly not a promising track record.

Exactly, in fact, Stadia is really just a way for Google to subsidize their cloud GPU buildout. Do you think those expensive GPUs are sitting idle in the meantime? No way! They're crunching numbers or spot instances for AI/ML workloads.

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by akhilcacharya on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:49PM (#21597041)
That's...probably not true at this moment. They're using AMD GPUs, which generally support the sorts of workloads folks need, and AFAIK they haven't opened up support for AMD GPU spot instances to users.

The OpenCL ML ecosystem is really lacking at the moment.

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by earhart on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:00PM (#21597173)
PlaidML?

(Disclaimer -- I'm one of the devs. Even though we were bought by Intel a year or so ago, we've been pretty good about keeping the AMD / OpenCL support intact.)

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by akhilcacharya on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:30PM (#21598418)
PlaidML is super cool, but it's not used by Google.
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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by smolder on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:04PM (#21597228)
And a way for them to key/voice/button log lots of gamers to collect training data for AIs and stuff of that nature.
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