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rektide
Saints work liberating not-that-old pizza-boxes.
koharski
for what it's worth, supermicro makes a carrier board that would allow you to use those same SXM2 V100s with a standard motherboard. You would need to hack together a power cable, and get an adapter to convert a PCIe 16 port to 2x or 4x pcie x 4 cables.

SXM is generation specific, so an SXM2 board will only work with the 32gb or 16gb V100 GPUs. The supermicro carrier board is the only one i'm aware of that is not vendor locked.

juliangoldsmith
Where did you manage to find one (presumably the AOM-SXMV)? They don't seem easy to come by.
koharski
I found one on ebay. If you call around to a few supermicro vendors, i'd bet that eventually one will be willing to sell you one.

If you are willing to gamble, this was just posted on STH: https://www.ebay.com/itm/256088074324

I suspect that it might run on 8 PCIe lanes as only one of the connectors is populated. Might be worth a shot.