Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets

Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by pineapple_guy on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:31AM (#37571381)

And they are simply unable to reliably release Linux drivers

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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by m00x on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:44AM (#37571614)

Linux graphics you mean? The compute ones are fine.

It's not as much of an issue about supporting old versions, it's just that new versions of Linux breaks the drivers since they don't know what's in it.

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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by redox99 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:49AM (#37571703)

Almost 100% of their datacenter GPUs are used on Linux. Do do think they run without drivers?

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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by michaelt on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:57AM (#37571849)

They run with drivers, of course.

But such servers have no need to, for example, suspend and resume correctly. Or handle hot-plugging of displays correctly. Or install updates in a completely reliable manner. Or include the 32 bit support needed for Steam to work.

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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by alecco on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:54PM (#37572763)

Or support Wayland.

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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by heroprotagonist on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:21PM (#37580061)

That driver also costs $450 per GPU per year..

Source:

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-vi...

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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by MenhirMike on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:09PM (#37572030)

> unable

Correction: unwilling, not unable

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