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News Amazon adds Nvidia GPGPU to EC2

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Lizard, 15 Nov 2010.

  1. Lizard

    Lizard @ Scan R&D

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    Lizard, 15 Nov 2010
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  2. Synay

    Synay What's a Dremel?

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    If I understand right, then Amazon will be offering a cloud access to it's CUDA for a paid period of time. Is it just me, or would I be able to run some folding@home on it? :naughty:
     
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  3. memeroot

    memeroot aged and experianced

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    This is cloud computing at its best
     
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  4. DriftCarl

    DriftCarl Minimodder

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    sure you can run folding@home but because it would be using 100% of the CPU 100% of the time, it would get expensive quickly. Probably to the point that it would be cheaper to have your own kit.
    Amazon cloud is big because you only pay for what you use, so if your CPU is idle, you dont pay a thing.
    Also to note, amazon also charge extra for storage, I/O's and network bandwidth.
     
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  5. Autti

    Autti What's a Dremel?

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    Very handy, will be seeings if i could rent some space for my finance calcs, only have a 2 year old laptop is limiting to say the least.
     
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