Amazon’s Cloud Computing Uses Nvidia GPUs For Enhanced Performance

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The Amazon could computing division Amazon Web Services has just announced a new Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type. Dubbed P2, this new Amazon cloud service is taking advantage of Nvidia high-performance GPUs in order to offer massive computing performance.

According to Hot Hardware, Nvidia GPUs help Amazon avoid the inherent limitation and bottlenecks of the current CPUs and architecture. By adding Nvidia GPUs in its cloud architecture, Amazon is able to enhance the performance of its cloud computing services. Jeff Barr, Amazon’s Chief Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, explains in a blog post on the AWS website that the GPU scales out instead of up…

This means that the graphics processing units offer parallel banks of memory and more processors instead of bottlenecked memory and faster processors…

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