[Beowulf] nVidia revealed as evil

[Lux, Jim (337K)]

That will solve the cluster cooling situation, at least for a while. One just has to run appropriate ducting.

From: Beowulf <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org> on behalf of "beowulf at beowulf.org" <beowulf at beowulf.org>
Reply-To: John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com>
Date: Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 1:13 AM
To: Tim Cutts <tjrc at sanger.ac.uk>
Cc: Lawrence Stewart <stewart at serissa.com>, "beowulf at beowulf.org" <beowulf at beowulf.org>
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] nVidia revealed as evil

Tim,  I hear that just before Christmas the Sanger had a wardrobe installed, filled with fur coats. Also a supply of Turkish Delight.

On 3 January 2018 at 17:17, Tim Cutts <tjrc at sanger.ac.uk<mailto:tjrc at sanger.ac.uk>> wrote:
I am henceforth renaming my datacentre the “magical informatics cupboard”

Tim

On 03/01/2018, 15:58, "Beowulf on behalf of Lawrence Stewart" <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org<mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org> on behalf of stewart at serissa.com<mailto:stewart at serissa.com>> wrote:

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/

    Of course you cannot use our less expensive hardware for whatever you want!  Beacuse it includes proprietary software, we can ex-post-facto forbid you from using the thing you paid for any way you want.

    Looks like Stallman was right all along.

    -L

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