> AI accelerators used in DC are not really "graphic cards" any more, you ain't running gaming on it
I think the lighter 40 series cards like L40 still have OK graphics features. But otherwise yeah, after the Ampere generation graphics features went down the drain. The A100 and A40 cards can do graphics well but it already makes no sense in terms of power-to-performance ratio.
I'm not going to say Slurm is great (its API:s are awfully inconsistent and there's a lot of code churn between versions leading to subtle behaviour changes in prod), but it's an invaluable and reliable tool. As someone who manages Slurm clusters in academic HPC as a major part of my job, I'm not at all happy to see this and quite worried that the development and maintenance of Slurm will be broken by the inevitable market volatility.
Yeah, I did a lot of traditional optimization problems during my Ph. D., this type of expression pops up all the time with higher-order gradient-based methods. You rescale or otherwise adjust the gradient based on some system-characteristic eigenvalues to promote convergence without overshooting too much.
I think the lighter 40 series cards like L40 still have OK graphics features. But otherwise yeah, after the Ampere generation graphics features went down the drain. The A100 and A40 cards can do graphics well but it already makes no sense in terms of power-to-performance ratio.