New Amazon EC2 GPU Instance Type

HeXetic wrote: post #4

> 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.

Re: New Amazon EC2 GPU Instance Type

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Post by lowkeykiwi » Tue, Nov 05, 2013, 8:03 PM UTC

HeXetic wrote: post #4

> making it ideally suited for video creation services, 3D visualizations, streaming graphics-intensive applications ... And, presumably, cracking hashes!

lets go mining.

Re: New Amazon EC2 GPU Instance Type

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Post by hga » Tue, Nov 05, 2013, 8:09 PM UTC

HeXetic wrote: post #4

> 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

Re: New Amazon EC2 GPU Instance Type

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Post by thenomad » Tue, Nov 05, 2013, 8:14 PM UTC

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.