New License Aggreement

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I have been struggling with understanding what the GPU-based licensing would mean for our setup. Here my questions:

  1. While we have only 2 users in a local network an individual Nucleus license is sufficient
  2. For larger projects > 2 users: we will need an enterprise license.
    a. My assumption is this license works as follows: For each active GPU in the network, we will need a license.
    b. Practical example: we have 3 pc’s with a 4090 for development + 1 pc with a 3060 which is hosting the nucleus. From the 3 pc’s only 2 are in use for the project => we need 3 licenses (1x for 3060, 2x for 4090)
    i. Is this correct?
    ii. This licensing model does not come automatically with Nvidias vGPU offering – correct? So if we would like to use vGPUs to max out the two 4090 machines this would require a separate license?
    iii. If I would now connect the 3. PC with the 4090 to the network e.g. since one of the other 4090 pc’s is in use for a different project – would I need to buy a 4th license? So is the system based on the MAC address of the pc
    iv. On a practical side this means from a cost-value perspective, having an A6000 is a much better value from the license, compared to having e.g. 2x 4090 in parallel?

Here the link to the license document: NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise Pricing and Licensing Guide

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You are over thinking it. It is just per GPU.

Yes having one A6000 will be half the cost of dual 4090s

No it does not included a vGPU driver

Why not install Nucleus Server on one of the three workstations ? It will save yourself a license. It is simple and not demanding.

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I see. Whats still open to me: is this license transferable? So, if I don’t use PC2, but use PC3 instead would I need a new license? So is the license somehow specific to your Graphics card - or is it just the sum of GPU devices in your network?

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Yes the license is completely transferable. So if you have 5 machines set up and only 2 concurrent users using only 2 GPUs, then you only need 2 licenses.

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