{"id":3423,"date":"2010-11-15T16:48:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T15:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3423-now-you-can-rent-gpu-computing-from-amazon.html"},"modified":"2010-11-15T16:48:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T15:48:47","slug":"now-you-can-rent-gpu-computing-from-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3423-now-you-can-rent-gpu-computing-from-amazon.html","title":{"rendered":"Now you can rent GPU computing from Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote back in September about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjoblog.co.uk\/2010\/09\/gpu-programming.html\" target=\"_blank\">why programming the GPU is going mainstream<\/a>. That\u2019s even more the case today, with Amazon\u2019s announcement of a <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.typepad.com\/aws\/2010\/11\/new-ec2-instance-type-the-cluster-gpu-instance.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cluster GPU instance<\/a> for the Elastic Compute Cloud. It is also a vote of confidence for NVIDIA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/object\/what_is_cuda_new.html\" target=\"_blank\">CUDA architecture<\/a>. Each Cluster GPU instance has two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/object\/product_tesla_M2050_M2070_us.html\" target=\"_blank\">NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs<\/a> installed and <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/pricing\/\" target=\"_blank\">costs<\/a> $2.10 per hour. If one GPU instance is not enough, you can use up to 8 by default, with more available on request.<\/p>\n<p>GPU programming in the cloud makes sense in cases where you need the performance of a super-computer, but not very often. It could also enable some powerful mobile applications, maybe in financial analysis, or image manipulation, where you use a mobile device to input data and view the results, but cloud processing to do the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n<p>One of the ideas I discussed with someone from Adobe at the NVIDIA GPU conference was to integrate a cloud processing service with PhotoShop, so you could send an image to the cloud, have some transformative magic done, and receive the processed image back.<\/p>\n<p>The snag with this approach is that in many cases you have to shift a lot of data back and forth, which means you need a lot of bandwidth available before it makes sense. Still, Amazon has now provided the infrastructure to make processing as a service easy to offer. It is now over to the rest of us to find interesting ways to use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote back in September about why programming the GPU is going mainstream. That\u2019s even more the case today, with Amazon\u2019s announcement of a Cluster GPU instance for the Elastic Compute Cloud. It is also a vote of confidence for NVIDIA\u2019s CUDA architecture. Each Cluster GPU instance has two NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs installed and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3423-now-you-can-rent-gpu-computing-from-amazon.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now you can rent GPU computing from Amazon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19,79,80],"tags":[137,436,654],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-cloud-computing","category-software","category-software-development","tag-amazon","tag-gpu-computing","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}