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    Nvidia Wants To Prohibit Consumer GPU Use In Datacenters ☶ hardware law slashdot.org
    koudi avatar via koudi 7 months ago | cached | 5 comments

“No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.”

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    calvin avatar calvin 7 months ago | link

    Ok, so all datacentres will now do irrelevant blockchain operations to their actual goals in order to satisfy Nvidia.

    (Or someone just sues Nvidia instead.)

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      kolen avatar kolen 7 months ago | link

      They can make each step of gradient descent to be a block on blockchain.

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        deankevorkian avatar deankevorkian 7 months ago | link

        Or keep the old drivers and avoid the new terms :)

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        akpoff avatar akpoff 7 months ago | link

        This is pretty sleazy. NVidia used to make it hard enough to use consumer cards in lights-out scenarios. Some settings can only be adjusted via the GUI control panel, whereas the drivers for the workstation cards can be adjusted from the command line. But to add the prohibition to the driver EULA is pretty low.

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          voronoipotato avatar voronoipotato 7 months ago | link

          Sounds like a win for Gridcoin :V.