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by boulos 3036 days ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Not necessarily. The DGX-1, for example, has pretty poor perf/$$ but reduces the time a data scientist spends waiting. For some organizations, their people time is so valuable that what matters is “what gets me my answers back faster”, because that employee is easily $100/hr+.

That’s actually why the 8xV100 with NVLINK is so attractive (and why the TPUs also have board to board networking, not just chip to chip).