A few years ago we got rid of a bunch of K80s at work, they were not only obsolete but had gotten glitchy as hell. I suspect this is from the many heat/cool cycles they went through. When they were running flat out the exhaust air felt like a hair dryer.

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Octoth0rpe 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you have any #s on how old they were at decomm time? There's some suspicion that part of the AI bubble is companies playing games with depreciation, eg assuming that H100/H200s will survive for 5 years.

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SoftTalker 2 hours ago | parent [-]

They were probably about 8 years old. They were well past reasonable EOL, but they were used for teaching, so performance was not a primary concern, as long as they worked. They had reached the point of not working often enough that we finally scrapped them.

	▲	eso_logic 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is a great datapoint. Someone else brought up that I should be memory checking the GPUs to understand if things are breaking down.