[dagmx]

I mean negligible to their bottom line. There may be tons of units bought or not, but the margin on a single datacenter system would buy tens of these.

It’s purely an ecosystem play imho. It benefits the kind of people who will go on to make potentially cool things and will stay loyal.

[htrp]

>It’s purely an ecosystem play imho. It benefits the kind of people who will go on to make potentially cool things and will stay loyal.

100%

The people who prototype on a 3k workstation will also be the people who decide how to architect for a 3k GPU buildout for model training.

[mrlongroots]

> It’s purely an ecosystem play imho. It benefits the kind of people who will go on to make potentially cool things and will stay loyal.

It will be massive for research labs. Most academics have to jump through a lot of hoops to get to play with not just CUDA, but also GPUDirect/RDMA/Infiniband etc. If you get older/donated hardware, you may have a large cluster but not newer features.

[ckemere]

Academic minimal-bureaucracy purchasing card limit is about $4k, so pricing is convenient*2.

[bwfan123]

Devalapers developers developers - balmer monkey dance - the key to be entrenched is the platform ecosystem.

Also why aws is giving trainium credits for free