[GTALUG] (question) GPU + Data center = ?
Nicholas Krause
xerofoify at gmail.com
Mon Jul 13 23:32:16 EDT 2020
On 7/13/20 11:19 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Perhaps off topics... I keep coming across "GPU in Data Centers", ie.
> Nvidia. Exactly what does GPU have ANYTHING do with data centers? I
> can't imagine people setting up a server in the cloud, and then using
> that to process graphics or play games.
>
The short answer is similar to FPGAs or other specialized processing
cores they are good for certain tasks. Here is a list of things that
are libraries by Nvidia used for certain tasks related to that.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/gpu-accelerated-applications/
Maybe that helps,
Nick
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