I gotta say, amazon has surprised me in their monotonically increasingly impressive set of services. Now GPU instances.
I scoffed at their being just a "box in the sky" approach, but with their slowly improving console for managing all the parts they offer, I could easily see them becoming the IT dept of many companies. Does anyone on the list use them? If so, how? -- Owen Begin forwarded message: > From: Amazon Web Services <store-n...@amazon.com> > Date: November 15, 2010 1:49:42 AM MST > To: "o...@backspaces.net" <o...@backspaces.net> > Subject: Announcing Cluster GPU Instances for Amazon EC2 > > Dear Amazon EC2 Customer, > > We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Cluster GPU > Instances for Amazon EC2, a new instance type designed to deliver the power > of GPU processing in the cloud. GPUs are increasingly being used to > accelerate the performance of many general purpose computing problems. > However, for many organizations, GPU processing has been out of reach due to > the unique infrastructural challenges and high cost of the technology. > Amazon Cluster GPU Instances remove this barrier by providing developers and > businesses immediate access to the highly tuned compute performance of GPUs > with no upfront investment or long-term commitment. > > Amazon Cluster GPU Instances provide 22 GB of memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute Units, > and utilize the Amazon EC2 Cluster network, which provides high throughput > and low latency for High Performance Computing (HPC) and data intensive > applications. Each GPU instance features two NVIDIA Tesla® M2050 GPUs, > delivering peak performance of more than one trillion double-precision FLOPS. > Many workloads can be greatly accelerated by taking advantage of the > parallel processing power of hundreds of cores in the new GPU instances. > Many industries including oil and gas exploration, graphics rendering and > engineering design are using GPU processors to improve the performance of > their critical applications. > > Amazon Cluster GPU Instances extend the options for running HPC workloads in > the AWS cloud. Cluster Compute Instances, launched earlier this year, > provide the ability to create clusters of instances connected by a low > latency, high throughput network. Cluster GPU Instances give customers with > HPC workloads an additional option to further customize their high > performance clusters in the cloud. For those customers who have applications > that can benefit from the parallel computing power of GPUs, Amazon Cluster > GPU Instances can often lead to even further efficiency gains over what can > be achieved with traditional processors. By leveraging both instance types, > HPC customers can tailor their compute cluster to best meet the performance > needs of their workloads. For more information on HPC capabilities provided > by Amazon EC2, visit http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications. > > Learn more about the new Cluster GPU instances for Amazon EC2 at > http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ and their use in running HPC applications at > http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/. > > Sincerely, > > The Amazon EC2 Team ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org