Except for the fact that no server administrator in their right mind bothers to put high end video equipment in a server... Complex video drivers just add one more thing that could take a box down, and on a server that is not what you want.
Except for the fact that no server administrator in their right mind bothers to put high end video equipment in a server...
I would agree your typical admin wouldn't put a tesla on board, but Teslas are not typical server hardware. Anyone in the HPC server market or has large cluster servers (who already have teslas) will be following this closely.
I would also expect some data centers would be considering a Telsa based antivirus; for the speed and reduced impact on the overall system.
Going along with Thrax, I would mention that Tesla's are not "High end Video equipment". The tesla is a CUDA Computing Processor, using GPGPU technology, there are Zero (count them again Zero) ports for video on the tesla. As Thrax said "enterprise-class hardware"
Get 3 of these little babies and you got yourself a data mining, rendering, matlab, supercomputer. The data mining ability is the aspect of the tesla Kaspersky Labs is exploiting with their anti-virus program.
Okay... I was a bit thrown by the Tesla bit and assumed it was just another Nvidia graphics card, my bad on that one. Still though, considering how crashy the nvidia drivers have been on my desktop of late, I would be hesitant at the least to put any part that required nvidia drivers on a server that I needed to stay up and running. The hardware may be enterprise tested, but I've lost faith in their software testing over the past year or so.
Several of the top-10 fastest supercomputers on earth are currently using Telsa products. I'm pretty sure the software testing at the enterprise is fine.
lordbean
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I would agree your typical admin wouldn't put a tesla on board, but Teslas are not typical server hardware. Anyone in the HPC server market or has large cluster servers (who already have teslas) will be following this closely.
I would also expect some data centers would be considering a Telsa based antivirus; for the speed and reduced impact on the overall system.
Get 3 of these little babies and you got yourself a data mining, rendering, matlab, supercomputer. The data mining ability is the aspect of the tesla Kaspersky Labs is exploiting with their anti-virus program.