From c703b1c4b48e853455e2ad95b705742b5f87fbe9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Claude Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:55:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs(ai-stack): disambiguate Tesla brand name from Tesla microarchitecture "Tesla" was NVIDIA's datacenter-card brand (retired after Volta), spanning four unrelated architecture generations (Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal/Volta) - a different, much older thing than the Tesla microarchitecture itself, which actually predates Fermi/Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal/Volta. Clarify to avoid reading the power-connector note as claiming Tesla == Volta. --- services/ai-stack.md | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/services/ai-stack.md b/services/ai-stack.md index 0028975..b90fa84 100644 --- a/services/ai-stack.md +++ b/services/ai-stack.md @@ -97,8 +97,13 @@ driver and `nvidia-container-toolkit` are still on you to install first, and getting the driver branch right is what actually matters here, not the Ubuntu version itself. -**Tesla-card power connector — don't assume standard PCIe.** V100/P100/P40/M40 -PCIe cards take an 8-pin **CPU/EPS12V** connector, not the 6+2-pin PCIe +**"Tesla"-branded card power connector — don't assume standard PCIe.** +("Tesla" here is NVIDIA's old datacenter-card *brand name*, retired after +Volta — not the unrelated, much older Tesla *microarchitecture* that +predates Fermi/Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal/Volta. V100/P100/P40/M40 all shipped +under the Tesla brand despite being four different architecture +generations.) These PCIe cards take an 8-pin **CPU/EPS12V** connector, not +the 6+2-pin PCIe connector a normal GPU uses — a standard PCIe cable will not plug in. Get the dongle/adapter (splits a PCIe 8-pin into EPS12V, or use a real EPS cable) and never daisy-chain both 8-pin rails off one PSU cable/splitter — use two