Microsoft Readies Azure GPUs

Post by dogma1138 » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 5:23 PM UTC

LogicFailsMe wrote: post #44

perryh2 wrote: post #38

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The GPUs that hosting providers are buying need to support vGPU features, which are only support by the higher-end workstation and server products.

Which is a software/binning issue (probably 100% software) not inherently HW because M60==GTX 980==GM204 and M40==GTX Titan X==Quadro M6000==GM200. Interestingly, for the first time ever, GP100 is unique (well, OK, K80 too but K80 was too late). And since Quadro P6000==Titan XP==GP102, it's probably just a software block here as well. Also, for the first time ever, the high-end Quadro will be the best FP32 GPU of it'…

Post by KirinDave » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 6:38 PM UTC

mtanski wrote: post #52

KirinDave wrote: post #48

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So... I haven't checked in the last 6 months but when I did do a comparison the Windows vms were noticably faster than the linux vms. I should check that again, it's been awhile. But it depends on your platform. Its an unpopular but somewhat verifiable fact that the Windows kernels have much more powerful async I/O support and when software targets that, it is very fast compared to linux counterparts. If your toolkit…

> Windows kernels have much more powerful async I/O async DISK I/O

Post by Artemis2 » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 7:58 PM UTC

mrmondo wrote: post #2

Meanwhile Azure and Office 365 still use Symantec issued SHA1 certificates which are insecure, Symantec owns bluecoat who sell interception technologies to governments and private enterprises, all to convenient given that Microsoft themselves are a CA and could have issued their own certs, handing that off to a company like Symantec means they aren't directly giving your data away and are avoiding direct blame as muc…

Post by LogicFailsMe » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 9:34 PM UTC

dogma1138 wrote: post #51

LogicFailsMe wrote: post #44

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Which is a software/binning issue (probably 100% software) not inherently HW because M60==GTX 980==GM204 and M40==GTX Titan X==Quadro M6000==GM200. Interestingly, for the first time ever, GP100 is unique (well, OK, K80 too but K80 was too late). And since Quadro P6000==Titan XP==GP102, it's probably just a software block here as well. Also, for the first time ever, the high-end Quadro will be the best FP32 GPU of it'…

It is a software/bios block. Once the driver grabs a desktop card and it's initiated it's locked. The cards also come with a UEFI bios which means if your host initialized the card during boot it's also locked. To overcome this you need to disable UEFI boot/GPU boot in the BIOS and blacklist the card in the host OS and then create a PCI-stub device that will be used for the passthrough. This is an utter and complete…

Post by pjietr » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 12:27 PM UTC

dogma1138 wrote: post #45

dharma1 wrote: post #43

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""Gaming" GPU's have reduced compute capabilities" Not so for machine learning, at least in my experience. http://pjreddie.com/darknet/hardware-guide/ Passthrough: https://www.evonide.com/non-root-gpu-passthrough-setup/

You missed the end of the sentence: "....pretty horrible DP/HP compute performance compared to Tesla parts." Might not be applicable in your case, but NVIDIA hasn't released a desktop part with FP64 capabilities even remotely comparable to their Tesla's since the original Titan. Both Titan X's (Maxwell and Pascal) and the [Insert Physicist's Name Here] Quadros are pretty gimped as far as it comes to HP/DP operations.…