<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">There are 3 issues with adding GPU and adding code to glusterFS:</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">1. Cost: Since you cannot stick any GTX card inside your server, you'll be forced to buy a $2K+ card for that. That could be an issue if the GlusterFS is made out of old/cheap servers and the company/institution doesn't have money for that.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">2. You cannot insert any non GTX (or AMD's VEGA) cards to a 1U server.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">3. Even if you find a solution for the 2 issues mentioned above, the code will need to support both OpenCL and CUDA.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">Instead of GPU, how about thinking about some cheap DSP PCIe solution? </div></span><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="rtl"><div dir="rtl"><div dir="rtl"><font color="#FF0000"><b><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal;font-size:medium"></div></b></font></div><div dir="rtl" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal"></div><div dir="rtl" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal"></div><div dir="rtl" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal"></div></div></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On January 11, 2018 10:58:28 PM EST, Lindsay Mathieson <<a href="mailto:lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com">lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>On 12/01/2018 3:14 AM, Darrell Budic wrote:<br>
>> It would also add physical resource requirements to future client<br>
>> deploys, requiring more than 1U for the server (most likely), and I’m<br>
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>> not likely to want to do this if I’m trying to optimize for client<br>
>> density, especially with the cost of GPUs today.<br>
><br>
>Nvidia has banned their GPU's being used in Data Centers now to, I<br>
>imagine they are planning to add a licensing fee.<br>
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Nvidia banned only the lower cost, home user versions of their GPU line from datacenters.<br>
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>Lindsay Mathieson<br>
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