Amazon’s new graphical cloud helps make desktops obsolete
November 7, 2013
Grazed from BetaNews. Author: Robert X. Cringely.
Amazon Web Services quietly released on Tuesday a pair of new instances on its EC2 cloud computing service. Not just new instances but a whole new type of instance aimed at 2D and 3D graphical computing. For the first time from AWS in a generally available instance, developers and users will have access to virtual machines with GPUs.
It’s like putting a PC in the cloud. More properly it is like putting your PC in the cloud. I think this has great disruptive potential. And that means we’ll see similar services coming soon from other cloud providers. Autodesk must think it has potential, too, because it’ll be offering several applications on the new platform, though notably not AutoCAD, at least not at first…
Starting at $0.65 per hour you’ll be able to run in the Amazon cloud DirectX, OpenGL, CUDA, and OpenCL applications and services. The base g2.2xlarge instance comes with 15 gigs of memory, 60 gigs of local storage, an Intel Sandy Bridge processor running at 2.6 GHz (26 compute units) and a single NVIDIA Kepler GK104 graphics card with 1536 CUDA cores…
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