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"supercomputers" are archaic in a day when one can rent a 40,000 core GPU system with 732GB of RAM for $14/hour, on demand, via Amazon Web Services. Available w
by jackhack 9y ago
"supercomputers" are archaic in a day when one can rent a 40,000 core GPU system with 732GB of RAM for $14/hour, on demand, via Amazon Web Services. Available whether you need one or a hundred (4 million cores crunching on a problem with 20Gb/second throughput is still only $1400 per hour).
edit: more thorough response.
- dman 9y agoWhere are you getting the 40000 core number from?
- jackhack 9y agohttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-p2-instance-type-for-amazon-ec2-up-to-16-gpus/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-p2-instance-type-for-am...
- pvg 9y agoNo, they aren't. Unless you think everyone building them is stuck in the past and wasting a lot of money, unaware of Amazon's offerings.
- 21 9y agoA CUDA core and a CPU core is not quite the same thing. 40000 CUDA cores are much slower and more constrained than 40000 CPU cores.