[kkielhofner]

Is there really datacenter demand for these anymore?

In addition to the Nvidia EULA against "datacenter use" they (allegedly) shut down the last dual slot 3090 (with server compatible cooling configuration) because it was eating at higher margin datacenter SKUs[0].

I don't see a lot of datacenters making use of a 3.5U card with challenging power and cooling requirements but I certainly could be wrong.

0 - https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/gigabyte-axe...

[my123]

The NVIDIA datacenter use clause is present in the license agreement for the Windows driver, but not on the Linux one.

[kkielhofner]

Do you have a reference?

What’s the point of the infamous “No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.” clause if it only applies to Windows?

[my123]

Yes.

Windows: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/

Linux: https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/520.56.06/l...

[kkielhofner]

Wow, thanks!

This is fascinating and now I'm really confused. Who is using CUDA on Windows in any datacenter application?

[smoldesu]

I wonder if it's the other way around... maybe this rule was grandfathered in from a time when Microsoft feared companies offering "DirectX as a Service" or whatever. It doesn't really seem like the sort of thing Nvidia would care about, especially considering the licensing of their Unix drivers and considerable enterprise support efforts.