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> making it ideally suited for video creation services, 3D visualizations, streaming graphics-intensive applications ... And, presumably, cracking hashes!
As I understand it, scrypt is designed to mitigate this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrypt
Very weird they do not use the amazon domain for that and yet it looks exactly like amazon. Teaching consumers bad habits.
> making it ideally suited for video creation services, 3D visualizations, streaming graphics-intensive applications ... And, presumably, cracking hashes!
I've never used Amazon EC2, but with this kind of application, I might have to give it a try. Buying a $300 graphics card just to try some GPU programming is ridiculous.
The current and previous generation Intel CPUs (Haswell and Ivy Bridge, respectively) have on-die GPUs which support OpenCL: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdk-for-openc...
AMD's APUs are quite cheap (~$100) CPU+GPU designs similar to those in the upcoming PS4 and XBox One (though the retail APUs are somewhat less powerful). They've been more-or-less designed specifically around the needs of a heterogenous OpenCL application.
Finally, the last several generations of NVidia cards all support both CUDA and OpenCL; the newer cards do support additional features though. You should be able to pick up a low-end, recent-edition Nvidia GPU for roughly $100.
The new g2.2xlarge instances are $0.650/hour, and the existing cg1.4xlarge are $2.100/hour; so it may make sense to experiment on AWS a bit, then buy your own card for long-term use if you decide to spend more time doing GPU programming.
Very weird they do not use the amazon domain for that and yet it looks exactly like amazon. Teaching consumers bad habits.
Very weird they do not use the amazon domain for that and yet it looks exactly like amazon. Teaching consumers bad habits.
I particularly like how http://phx.corporate-ir.net/ does a 302 to http://www.ccbn.com/ which doesn't even go anywhere.
Very weird they do not use the amazon domain for that and yet it looks exactly like amazon. Teaching consumers bad habits.
That's a really good point, and one that I will be bringing up with my manager immediately after re:Invent (I am part of the AWS team).
Corporate-IR (or whoever runs that domain) meets the criteria/is authorized for disclosure of information to investors.
Other companies use them too, for example NVIDIA: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=116466&p=irol-ir...
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I particularly like how http://phx.corporate-ir.net/ does a 302 to http://www.ccbn.com/ which doesn't even go anywhere.
I saw the previous developer of the CCBN (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network) pop up on in the HN comments last time this was mentioned to explain its stagnation and mishandling after being bought by Thomson-Reuters. Can't find it now myself; anyone else have the link?
Interestingly, it seems like they recently sold it to NASDAQ: http://corporatesolutions.thomsonreuters.com/investor-relati...
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That's a really good point, and one that I will be bringing up with my manager immediately after re:Invent (I am part of the AWS team).
If I remember correctly, it has to do with disclosure requirements. Corporate-IR (or whoever runs that domain) meets the criteria/is authorized for disclosure of information to investors. Other companies use them too, for example NVIDIA: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=116466&p=irol-ir...
Very weird they do not use the amazon domain for that and yet it looks exactly like amazon. Teaching consumers bad habits.
How do the GPUs on this compare with NVidia desktop GPUs? Anyone know? Also, very exciting that they're supporting GPU cloud rendering - that's going to be big for 3D.