<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div>It is disappointing to see the limitation being put by Nvidia on low cost GPU usage on data centers.</div><div><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/</a></div><div><br></div><div>We thought of providing an option in glusterfs by which we can control if we want to use GPU or not. </div><div>So, the concern of gluster eating out GPU's which could be used by others can be addressed.<br></div><div><br></div><div>---<br></div><div>Ashish<br></div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>gluster-users@gluster.org, "Lindsay Mathieson" <lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com>, "Darrell Budic" <budic@onholyground.com>, "Gluster Users" <gluster-users@gluster.org><br><b>Cc: </b>"Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel@gluster.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, January 12, 2018 6:00:25 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Integration of GPU with glusterfs<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div>On January 11, 2018 10:58:28 PM EST, Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com> 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>><br>>> 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><div><br></div>Nvidia banned only the lower cost, home user versions of their GPU line from datacenters. <br>><br>>-- <br>>Lindsay Mathieson<br>><br>>_______________________________________________<br>>Gluster-users mailing list<br>>Gluster-users@gluster.org<br>>http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users<br><div><br></div>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. All tyopes are thumb related and reflect authenticity.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Gluster-devel mailing list<br>Gluster-devel@gluster.org<br>http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>