You would think with all the money from data centers their support for enterprise GPU use would be great. But as someone who’s tried to install it, I can confirm it’s really basic and the documentation is sparse.
My main issue is that, the life cycle of their entreprise grade GPU are way too short (and the gaming one are worse) . My job involve some obsolescence management and while the GPU obsolescence isn’t the most complicated one, while we finished system validation on a GPU generation it’s already time for purchasing to send a last buy order
Recently there are news reports saying companies like Meta are overstating their gpu life cycle length to show paper profits, what’s a typical life cycle length for you? I’m hoping we’ll get a massive glut of discounted gpus when its time for datacenters to upgrade.
My problem isn’t much GPU dying, or getting not powerful enough, but that as we work in a “certified environment”, everyone sourcing can’t procure anymore a GPU model, we can’t just buy the next generation and assume it works, but have to run an extensive list of test, then update documentations including list of supported GPU per system version(especially for service) .
Basically, it’s the kind of stuff where you can loose a lot of time (and which isn’t always high on priority list) so feel like as soon as we finally approved the usage of a GPU version, we have our suplier telling us it’s not available anymore. I would love to have a GPU manufacturer offering 10-15 years of market availability (Like we get for FPGA) .
You would think with all the money from data centers their support for enterprise GPU use would be great. But as someone who’s tried to install it, I can confirm it’s really basic and the documentation is sparse.
My main issue is that, the life cycle of their entreprise grade GPU are way too short (and the gaming one are worse) . My job involve some obsolescence management and while the GPU obsolescence isn’t the most complicated one, while we finished system validation on a GPU generation it’s already time for purchasing to send a last buy order
Also curious of what the other segment really is
Nintendo Switches, Nvidia Shield, and G-Force Now?
The icons beside Other (Eye, Car, Factory) have me guessing surveillance, automotive, and industrial.
Recently there are news reports saying companies like Meta are overstating their gpu life cycle length to show paper profits, what’s a typical life cycle length for you? I’m hoping we’ll get a massive glut of discounted gpus when its time for datacenters to upgrade.
My problem isn’t much GPU dying, or getting not powerful enough, but that as we work in a “certified environment”, everyone sourcing can’t procure anymore a GPU model, we can’t just buy the next generation and assume it works, but have to run an extensive list of test, then update documentations including list of supported GPU per system version(especially for service) .
Basically, it’s the kind of stuff where you can loose a lot of time (and which isn’t always high on priority list) so feel like as soon as we finally approved the usage of a GPU version, we have our suplier telling us it’s not available anymore. I would love to have a GPU manufacturer offering 10-15 years of market availability (Like we get for FPGA) .