11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
2:16 p.m.
On Thursday 11 June 2009, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Well, if it's a workstation, sure. But if it sits in a datacenter
crunching math or databases or something?
I'm not sure how a cluster of rack-mount headless machines that use the
video card's GPU as a co-processor is a collection of workstations, and
not a collection of servers.
GPUs can do a lot of math, very quickly (though aren't necessarily as
accurate as general purpose processors).
Otoh, I prefer serial consoles on servers to video consoles, even if my
coworkers tend to disagree.
Pat
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Graphics hardware has *no* place on a server. The fact that
many servers have graphics hardware doesn't change this. Though
admittedly it is somewhat of a matter of opinion, I have damn good
reasons for my opinion.
Howzabout an SGI box, or (it's "modern replacement") a render farm?