Amazon’s new graphical cloud helps make desktops obsolete
Starting at $0.65 per hour you’ll be able to run in the Amazon cloud DirectX, OpenGL, CUDA, and OpenCL applications and services. The base g2.2xlarge instance comes with 15 gigs of memory, 60 gigs of local storage, an Intel Sandy Bridge processor running at 2.6 GHz (26 compute units) and a single NVIDIA Kepler GK104 graphics card with 1536 CUDA cores.
It’s pretty obvious to me that this graphical cloud will be useful for things like encoding and transcoding video and audio, especially for those who don’t need to do it very often, but the bigger question is whether it’s enough to kill most desktop computing? I suspect it is, though maybe not in exactly the way people expect.
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