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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by moffkalast on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:39AM (#37571525)
Haha so as long as you append some light proof of work to every task, you get them on a technicality?

Honestly though, who the fuck are they to tell you what to do with the hardware that you bought? Like telling people they are not allowed to drive their car on gravel roads or not being allowed to drink wine from a beer glass without paying for a special overpriced one or something.

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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by latchkey on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:52AM (#37571768)
Usually it involves warranty issues. Although in this case, it seems especially odd since this clause was added to effectively force data centers to buy their more expensive hardware. It goes back a while (~2018), so you'd think they would have revised this policy:

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nvidia-updates-ge...

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Re:Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, s... by dotnet00 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:39PM (#37572523)
It mostly just means that don't expect them to provide you any support for that use case. It isn't all that uncommon for smaller studios to just cluster together a couple of computers with 3-4 high end gaming GPUs each as a rendering farm for instance.
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