Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator

Re:Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator by orangebeet on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:14PM (#30769470)

This would be cool if they had decent drivers for Linux.

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Re:Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator by why_only_15 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:30PM (#30769671)

They do have good drivers for Linux for the things this chips is intended to be used for (research, ML).

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Re:Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator by johndough on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @04:29PM (#30771090)

If you haven't had any issues with NVIDIA Linux drivers, you can count yourself extremely lucky. In the past, I had a 50/50 chance of boot failure after installing CUDA drivers over 12 different systems. Mainline Ubuntu drivers are somewhat stable, but installing a specific CUDA version from the official NVIDIA repos rarely works on the first try. Switching from Tensorflow to PyTorch has helped a lot though, as Tensorflow was much more picky about the installed CUDA version.

Obligatory Linus Torvals on NVIDIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g

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Re:Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator by paxys on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:15PM (#30769486)

I can assure you systems that take advantage of this chip for scientific/ML workloads aren't running Windows.

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Re:Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator by flatiron on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:20PM (#30769545)

they may have edited their comment but they were commenting on the lack of quality of their Linux drivers (which I agree with but only on a consumer level, never used nvidia in a server)

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