On 12/01/2018 3:14 AM, Darrell Budic wrote:> It would also add physical resource requirements to future client > deploys, requiring more than 1U for the server (most likely), and I?m > not likely to want to do this if I?m trying to optimize for client > density, especially with the cost of GPUs today.Nvidia has banned their GPU's being used in Data Centers now to, I imagine they are planning to add a licensing fee. -- Lindsay Mathieson
On January 11, 2018 10:58:28 PM EST, Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:>On 12/01/2018 3:14 AM, Darrell Budic wrote: >> It would also add physical resource requirements to future client >> deploys, requiring more than 1U for the server (most likely), and I?m > >> not likely to want to do this if I?m trying to optimize for client >> density, especially with the cost of GPUs today. > >Nvidia has banned their GPU's being used in Data Centers now to, I >imagine they are planning to add a licensing fee.Nvidia banned only the lower cost, home user versions of their GPU line from datacenters.> >-- >Lindsay Mathieson > >_______________________________________________ >Gluster-users mailing list >Gluster-users at gluster.org >http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users-- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. All tyopes are thumb related and reflect authenticity.
There are 3 issues with adding GPU and adding code to glusterFS: 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. 2. You cannot insert any non GTX (or AMD's VEGA) cards to a 1U server. 3. Even if you find a solution for the 2 issues mentioned above, the code will need to support both OpenCL and CUDA. Instead of GPU, how about thinking about some cheap DSP PCIe solution? On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:> > > On January 11, 2018 10:58:28 PM EST, Lindsay Mathieson < > lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote: > >On 12/01/2018 3:14 AM, Darrell Budic wrote: > >> It would also add physical resource requirements to future client > >> deploys, requiring more than 1U for the server (most likely), and I?m > > > >> not likely to want to do this if I?m trying to optimize for client > >> density, especially with the cost of GPUs today. > > > >Nvidia has banned their GPU's being used in Data Centers now to, I > >imagine they are planning to add a licensing fee. > > Nvidia banned only the lower cost, home user versions of their GPU line > from datacenters. > > > >-- > >Lindsay Mathieson > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Gluster-users mailing list > >Gluster-users at gluster.org > >http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. All tyopes are thumb related > and reflect authenticity. > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20180112/adf64a97/attachment.html>
Ashish Pandey
2018-Jan-15 08:06 UTC
[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Integration of GPU with glusterfs
It is disappointing to see the limitation being put by Nvidia on low cost GPU usage on data centers. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/ We thought of providing an option in glusterfs by which we can control if we want to use GPU or not. So, the concern of gluster eating out GPU's which could be used by others can be addressed. --- Ashish ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> To: gluster-users at gluster.org, "Lindsay Mathieson" <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com>, "Darrell Budic" <budic at onholyground.com>, "Gluster Users" <gluster-users at gluster.org> Cc: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 6:00:25 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Integration of GPU with glusterfs On January 11, 2018 10:58:28 PM EST, Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:>On 12/01/2018 3:14 AM, Darrell Budic wrote: >> It would also add physical resource requirements to future client >> deploys, requiring more than 1U for the server (most likely), and I?m > >> not likely to want to do this if I?m trying to optimize for client >> density, especially with the cost of GPUs today. > >Nvidia has banned their GPU's being used in Data Centers now to, I >imagine they are planning to add a licensing fee.Nvidia banned only the lower cost, home user versions of their GPU line from datacenters.> >-- >Lindsay Mathieson > >_______________________________________________ >Gluster-users mailing list >Gluster-users at gluster.org >http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users-- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. All tyopes are thumb related and reflect authenticity. _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel at gluster.org http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20180115/321d2199/attachment.html>