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Hope he's prepared for a letter from nVidia's lawyers for breaking their license agreement for the RTX3090's.

Is all commercial use of the consumer grade nVidia products prohibited under that license? I thought (and this seems to agree: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/geforce-license/) that it was just use in a datacenter that was prohibited.

I reckon they will consider what he has constructed to be a data center.

A lot of places do it and just fly under the radar, but if you're going to publish a blog post bragging about it and how much money you are saving ...

They run two GPUs. I highly doubt NVIDIA, their lawyers, or a judge would consider that a datacenter. The license is clearly directed at a different crowd.

I don't think so. These are just workstations. It's not like they have a a rack full of 4u servers with RTX3900s and even then it's for their own usage.

The RTX datacenter restriction as far as read, but not a lawyer, is for data center providers like aws, ovh, hetzner etc to provide servers with these gpu and rent them.

It doesn't matter if they consider these 3 servers to be a "datacenter." There are legal definitions[0] that this usage doesn't fit in at all. Unless nvidia provides a different definition in their license (which they don't)

[0]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/17112#a_1

https://lambdalabs.com/gpu-workstations/vector

Lambda sells "GPU workstation built for Deep Learning" with RTX 3090.

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