Amazon EC2 推出新的 GPU 系列機器

這次 Amazon EC2 推出了 G3 instance:「New – Next-Generation GPU-Powered EC2 Instances (G3)」。

這次開放的只有這幾區,亞洲目前還沒有在內:

You can launch these instances today in the US East (Ohio), US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), AWS GovCloud (US), and EU (Ireland) Regions as On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and Dedicated Hosts, with more Regions coming soon.

這次使用的 GPU 是 Nvidia 的 Tesla M60:

Today we are taking a step forward and launching the G3 instance type. Powered by NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPUs, these instances are available in three sizes (all VPC-only and EBS-only)[.]

G3 (M60) 應該會比 G2 (K520) 快,但未必會比 P2 (K80) 快,尤其是 double precision 的部份,可以參考「Nvidia Tesla」這邊的數據。所以還是得看應用程式才能決定要用 G3 還是 P2...