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There are EC2 instances with beefy consumer graphics cards? (How do the GPU clusters even work? And, at $2 it seems way more expensive.)
by phillmv 14y ago
There are EC2 instances with beefy consumer graphics cards?
(How do the GPU clusters even work? And, at $2 it seems way more expensive.)
- mbreese 14y agoKinda... there are GPU instances, but they are targetted towards GPU cluster computing for HPC applications. I suspect that GPU clusters work largely the same way that generic/CPU clusters work. You have a cluster manager that dishes jobs out to the worker nodes. The common HPC job scheduler that we use (Torque/PBS) includes support for scheduling jobs that require GPU access. (I assume SGE does as well). Cluster GPU Quadruple Extra Large Instance 22 GB of memory 33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” architecture) 2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs 1690 GB of instance storage 64-bit platform I/O Performance: Very High (10 Gigabit Ethernet) EBS-Optimized Available: No* API name: cg1.4xlarge