Re: GPU-based Compute Cloud

I think that is a good starting point for startups interested in
having affordable and independent service infrastructure. Sony seems
to have a similar interest of attempting to build commercial grid with
their Play Station 3 consoles. Refer to the CIO-Today article,
http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=030000YR7DE0.

- Y

On Jun 11, 10:46 pm, "Khazret Sapenov" <sape...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What do you think about compute cloud, powered by general purpose GPUs
> (graphics processing units), dedicated entirely to stream processing?
> It'll provide good(cheap?) facilities for evolutionary computation or media
> processing (e.g. transcoding video files).
> I've read that SUN is working in this direction (apparently due to inoptimal
> price/performance ratio), and Apple just makes alternative to CUDA, which
> eventually is one step further to commodity GPGPUs, suitable for cloud.
>
> cheers,
> Khaz Sapenov

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