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AMD has rolled out a programme that it hopes will tempt scientific computing types away from Nvidia and the CUDA ecosystem and onto its own Instinct accelerator range and ROCm run-anywhere software platform: the AMD Instinct Education and Research (AIER) initiative. "At AMD, we're committed to engineering the best products and …

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  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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    Competition

    There's nothing like it.

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  2. Paul Hovnanian Silver badge

    Interesting

    How many BTC will one of those set me back?

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    1. teknopaul
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      Re: Interesting

      I would say approximately 34

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      35

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      36

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    They good at fp64 but tbh the radeonpro VII makes more sense on a price:performance basis.

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    1. Korev Silver badge
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      Does (will) AMD play the same datacentre software licence shenanigans that Nvidia do?

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      1. Aitor 1
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        Yes, that is critical.. and I suspect they will do the same in due time.. I also want to know.

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