NVIDA recently updated its End User License Agreement without any advance warning. The most significant of these changes was the addition of a clause prohibiting data center usage of GeForce. Just like that, any data center involved in deep learning experiments...both commercial and academic, in Japan and abroad...became unable to continue its work without investing in the high-cost Tesla rather than the affordable GeForce.
Btw: The EULA allows only ONE specific usage for data centers: mining
Elijah Cox
No, they just took their asses out of the suing line if any company tries to use non certified gamer drivers and gaming gpus for actual enterprise use. Because, you know? The last thing they need is a laboratory doing medicinal research suing them because they used GTX980tis to save costs instead of a quadro P6000. You have to understand that "we do not support this sort of use" is not the same as "it won't work if you plug it in"
Benjamin Rogers
but they disallow this use
Mason Hughes
forgot to mention in OP: this EULA is related to the Driver not the physical decice
Elijah Brooks
Hilarious if true. Everyone uses geforce for ml because it unironically runs 5x faster at 1/5 the cost (thus 25x bang/buck) than the equivalent tesla (you have to go several tiers higher to get equivalent or better performance). Academic labs can't even remotely afford non-geforce setups (even mila struggled with a geforce setup until a few years ago). This might encourage a move of software to opencl/amd hardware which would be interesting but there's quite a lot of code, expertise and optimizations that went into the cuda-backed frameworks.
Adam Morgan
t. professional brainlet
Adam Barnes
Doesn't matter you can still use it. They are just protecting themselves. That's what firm lawyers do when they update EULAs, they keep patching "holes" in the user agreement. I'm running cuda applications perfectly fine on my GPU even with up to date drivers after the eula apocalypse.
Josiah Harris
>Making a change in the EULA a reason to create drama and wear the legendary tinfoil hats of LARPing + 12 on Sup Forums. Who's the actual brainlet here?
Leo Torres
off yourself amdrone poorshit;^)
Caleb Russell
>youtube filename >shill thread >AMD GPoo loser saged
Carson Morris
Why would they ever get sued for something they explicitly give no warranty over?
Xavier King
The same way microwave manufacturers have to literally write in their manuals do not put children and pets inside to dry. And no I'm not memeing. Simple putting lawyers are doing their job and patching possible holes in the user agreement.
Luis Torres
Law was a mistake
Nathan Butler
Quadros have nothing to offer comparing to gaming gpus, you fucking retard. The only reason companies buy them cause these license limitations exist. They sell the same shit with almost no physical difference by different labels.
Isaac Martin
Hey nice to see you again, shitposter.
Still got my GeForce data center and deep learning up at work right now and Nvidia says it's completely cool.
Try harder, it's Christmas pajeet, take a break for atleast a day.
Jayden Stewart
double precision speed.
nvidia intentionally gimps it on gaming cards.
Asher Powell
>Quadros have nothing to offer comparing to gaming gpus, you fucking retard >Certified drivers tested to work with professional applications. >More memory than their equivalent gaming sister card. >More double precision floating point operations per second than their consumer variant which focuses on single precision because games only use that.
You're a literal inbreed nigger, those cards aren't the same thing, they may be BASED on the same architecture but they have different lego parts strapped together if we put in layman's terms.
Joshua Mitchell
this we have a geforce titan v rig for deep leaning where I work too and they said it's fine nothing has changed. fuck off OP
Blake Morris
Is this only a problem outside of America? Because our EULA hasn't changed one bit. Fuck off Rajeep KahAbeel.
Alexander Long
10 shekels have been deposited into your account courtesy of Nvidia
Colton Edwards
>inbreed nigger R O A S T E D
James Price
>News isn't even a day old >Of course these guys already spoke to Jensen Huang personally about their dusty PCs over the Christmas weekend
Anthony Baker
>Auzura has gotten a notice from Nvidia and stopped offering some servers
>Makes money using consumer product on data center.
Caleb Sanchez
>t. doesn't work in tech We've been working all over christmas break. we've updated our encryption guidelines in the past week. Commercial partners have quick access to support, a few on the Deep learning team were worried about this "update" and we were told directly nothing has changed. However, it's fairly obvious that you're a child who thinks that literally all work halts when you're on your highschool winter break.
