Dear members of the Amber community.
You have seen the emails regarding the new User Agreement from NVIDIA
regarding proper uses for the GeForce cards.
This point was raised by several people during a meeting with NVIDIA,
and this is the response we received, which as far as I am concerned, it
is the official word from NVIDIA.
One can agree or disagree with some points, but again, as fra as I am
concerned, it solved properly most of the points we were worried about.
Adrian
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Subject: EULA
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 16:09:12 +0000
From: Mark Berger <mberger.nvidia.com>
To: Adrian Roitberg <roitberg.ufl.edu>
Hi Adrian,
Thanks for bringing up the EULA concerns on Friday. I wanted to send
some approved clarification language which should help.
We have had a few questions around our new GeForce EULA. Let us
reassure you that our position for the higher education and research
community hasn’t changed.
First, NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs are designed specifically for High
Performance Computing and Deep Learning. They provide more
functionality, higher performance, and better manageability, reliability
and availability for these applications compared to our Consumer
products. In addition, Tesla products include a three-year warranty
covering data center workloads, NVIDIA enterprise support, and
guaranteed continuity of supply. To make our Tesla products more
affordable for this community, we have also created an attractive
Educational discount program.
Nevertheless, we recognize that academics and researchers place our
GeForce and TITAN products in small-scale GPU-server clusters for
research purposes and non-commercial use. We do not intend to prohibit
such uses. We understand that our GPUs have become an important tool for
research scientists, and while we encourage researchers to consider our
Tesla GPUs, we will not interfere with continued use of GeForce and
TITAN products for small-scale non-commercial research.
If it would help to post this to the AMBER Mailing List, please feel
free to do so.
Best,
Mark
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