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NVIDIA Confirms It's Acquiring Mellanox
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Sad really unless NVidia sees the light with respect to networking and open source.
As for this tech tech not showing up in GPU’s, I believe the opposite!! There are many ways NVidia could leverage high speed interconnects on GPUs. I really don’t see a decline in the demand for higher performance out of GPUs. Thus it is easy to see NVidia wanting new interconnect fabrics.
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Originally posted by Slithery View PostI can see the support threads now...
'How do I install the Nvidia proprietary drivers needed to use my new NIC'.
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A few months later:
Originally posted by phoronixPhoronix: NVIDIA May Be Trying To Prevent Mellanox Consumer NICs From Being Used In Data Centers
This driver download license agreement for the Mellanox consumer drivers mention, "No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment."
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Originally posted by Gusar View PostThe chip got reverse-engineered at some point, resulting in the in-kernel forcedeth driver. Nvidia then dropped their proprietary driver and started contributing to forcedeth.
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Originally posted by brad0 View Post
NVIDIA just turned a great company and great product into worthless garbage. RIP Mellanox. Intel would have been a much better company to purchase them.
If Intel purchased Mellanox, they would control most of InfiniBand and Intel's own alternative OmniPath.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post*old high-bandwith networking card for datacenters
Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostSince now datacenters are migrating to bigger and better, (like 40Gbit or even 100Gbit), these things are now available as "used" stock all over the usual channels (ebay and others), with the mesh/interconnect or even fibre as cheap as a friggin Gbit ethernet and sub-100 for a dual-10Gbit RJ45 (i.e. normal ethernet cable) card.
It's completely insane.
Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostBtw, just throwing it out there, the first affordable "desktop 10Gbit switch" is also arrived https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in
You get a fanless switch with 4 SFP+ ports capable of 10Gbit for less than 150$, which means that if you stay on fiber SFP+ modules or even just use the short-range SFP+ cables you can get away with an astonishingly cheap home 10Gb setup.
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Originally posted by numacross View Post
I'm replying to you via a Mellanox LAN card Granted they start at 10GbE, but it's 2019!
Since now datacenters are migrating to bigger and better, (like 40Gbit or even 100Gbit), these things are now available as "used" stock all over the usual channels (ebay and others), with the mesh/interconnect or even fibre as cheap as a friggin Gbit ethernet and sub-100 for a dual-10Gbit RJ45 (i.e. normal ethernet cable) card.
It's completely insane.
Btw, just throwing it out there, the first affordable "desktop 10Gbit switch" is also arrived https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in
You get a fanless switch with 4 SFP+ ports capable of 10Gbit for less than 150$, which means that if you stay on fiber SFP+ modules or even just use the short-range SFP+ cables you can get away with an astonishingly cheap home 10Gb setup.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostI'm really wondering what the actual fuck are you guys on.
Mellanox does not make "LAN" or "networking chips". They make high-bandiwth interconnect cards for datacenters.
Unless the Shield suddenly needs a 40Gbit fiber port (hint: it won't), then Mellanox won't be involved.
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