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Re: Nvidia GPU Cloud

#12
It's called "Nvidia GPU Cloud", but it's actually just a set of container images.

Having ready-to-use, properly optimized TF images is convenient, but calling that "Nvidia GPU Cloud" is a little bit overdicked.

Re: Nvidia GPU Cloud

#13

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Bluemix is SaaS/PaaS, not IaaS.

IBM Bluemix got an IaaS layer as well. It was previously called softlayer, but is now wrapped under the Bluemix brand. https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/info/softlayer-i...

Ah didn't know that, thanks!

Looking further though, I see Softlayer does offer GPU for bare metal provisioning [0]. But it is not available in Virtual machines. Also, even for the GPU offering, it doesn't mention the details at all, not even if it is OpenCL or CUDA.

[0] https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/bare-metal-searc...

EDIT - nevermind, was looking in the wrong place! Found this: https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/gpu-computing

Re: Nvidia GPU Cloud

#14
post #2

Basically a set of fine-tuned virtual machine images for Amazon Cloud.

Yeah, I was hoping that this would be an nvidia managed cloud platform as a new competitor in the space. With only AWS, Azure, and Google there is definitely room for another deep learning cloud competitor. But this announcement makes sense in the context of the new AWS P3 instances, so there is definitely a partnership going on that nvidia wouldnt break from.

Oracle OCI also has V100 support.

Re: Nvidia GPU Cloud

#15
post #7

But can we use it to play games? You know, for research..

There’s also GeForce now. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/ma... There’s a public beta for macs. It’s dope as fuck. Like smooth as the fucking butter. Integrates with steam and battle.net. So you can play your games. Free in beta. I’ve been telling everyone I know about it. I can play pubg on ultra settings. There’s an extremely occasional skip but playing natively would do that too. I know I…

Thanks for this, I had no idea it existed and it looks amazing!

Definitely trying it out tonight.

Re: Nvidia GPU Cloud

#16
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s also GeForce now. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/ma... There’s a public beta for macs. It’s dope as fuck. Like smooth as the fucking butter. Integrates with steam and battle.net. So you can play your games. Free in beta. I’ve been telling everyone I know about it. I can play pubg on ultra settings. There’s an extremely occasional skip but playing natively would do that too. I know I…

Thanks for this, I had no idea it existed and it looks amazing! Definitely trying it out tonight.

Post your experience here afterwards.

Re: Nvidia GPU Cloud

#17
"This eliminates time-consuming and difficult do-it-yourself software integration..."

writing easy to integrate, open source, software would also eliminate that

Re: Nvidia GPU Cloud

#18
post #7

But can we use it to play games? You know, for research..

There’s also GeForce now. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/ma... There’s a public beta for macs. It’s dope as fuck. Like smooth as the fucking butter. Integrates with steam and battle.net. So you can play your games. Free in beta. I’ve been telling everyone I know about it. I can play pubg on ultra settings. There’s an extremely occasional skip but playing natively would do that too. I know I…

This is awesome.

I can't wait for UK/EU, thanks for this.

Re: Nvidia GPU Cloud

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IBM Bluemix got an IaaS layer as well. It was previously called softlayer, but is now wrapped under the Bluemix brand. https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/info/softlayer-i...

Ah didn't know that, thanks! Looking further though, I see Softlayer does offer GPU for bare metal provisioning [0]. But it is not available in Virtual machines. Also, even for the GPU offering, it doesn't mention the details at all, not even if it is OpenCL or CUDA. [0] https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/bare-metal-searc... EDIT - nevermind, was looking in the wrong place! Found this: https://www.ibm.com/cl…

Having had experience with SoftLayer in recent years (that is, currently still deal with them and have for years), I can’t emphasize enough that you should steer clear. Year after year support and just overall stability has fallen to shit after IBMs acquisition. I can’t wait to be free of it.
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