In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at NVIDIA’s new EULA GeForce Software user license, which prohibits the use of consumer GPUs in the datacenter. We are not looking to beat up on anyone, but our focus is on what these kind of limitations might mean for the industry:
No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.
When we purchase hardware, aren’t we free to use it any way we please? And why do BitCoin miners get a pass during a worldwide GPU shortage?
Plus, what do we mean by the word “datacenter?” anyway? Shahin predicts the imminent proliferation of 5G networking capabilities will move computing closer to the edge, thereby changing what we mean by the term “datacenter.”
After that, we do our Catch of the Week:
- Shahin likes the news about the Hasselblad 400 Megapixel camera with sensor-shift technology.
- Rich points us to a D-Wave Seminar from SC17 that does a great job of explaining quantum computing and what type of applications can be adapted to take advantage of it.
- Dan is not swayed by the news that the city of Barcelona is switching from Windows to Linux. He reminds us that Munich tried the same thing years ago and ended up switching back.
