[Labs-admin] Fwd: Re: Servers with GPUs

Thu Feb 23 19:48:27 UTC 2017

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Andrew Bogott <abogott at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 2/23/17 12:30 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
>
> Do we have the human bandwidth to commit to doing this as a team? GPUs are fickle beasts.
>
> Noooo!  I'm not telling them 'we will do this' only 'this might be technically possible'

This seems like a bad fit for Cloud. Providing co-location for
specialty hardware for a specific project is a lot of burden for us
and really doesn't give them any practice for eventual implementation
in production.

Bryan
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