Nvidia updates GeForce EULA to prohibit data center use - DCD

GPU giant Nvidia has changed the licensing agreement for driver software required to operate its GeForce and Titan graphics processing units, prohibiting data center use. The company claims that the move was made as GeForce and Titan were not built with data center deployments in mind, but many see it as a way of ensuring customers pay for the similar, but more expensive, Tesla GPU line. The updated end-user license agreement (EULA) states: “No Datacenter Deployment. The software is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.” After some customers raised concerns on Reddit, the company told CNBC in a statement: “GeForce and Titan GPUs were never designed for data center deployments with the complex hardware, software, and thermal requirements for 24x7 operation, where there are often multi-stack racks. “To clarify this, we recently added a provision to our GeForce-specific EULA to discourage potential misuse of our GeForce and

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