On 7/13/20 11:32 PM, Nicholas Krause via talk wrote:
On 7/13/20 11:19 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
Hi all,
Perhaps off topics... I keep coming across "GPU in Data Centers", ie. Nvidia. Exactly what does GPU have ANYTHING do with data centers? I can't imagine people setting up a server in the cloud, and then using that to process graphics or play games.
The short answer is similar to FPGAs or other specialized processing cores they are good for certain tasks. Here is a list of things that are libraries by Nvidia used for certain tasks related to that.
That's a lot of applications. Not sure if it still exists but for a while you could setup a cryptocurrency system in the cloud and make some money most of which you paid to the hosting company but you had 0 risk of buying your own hardware. But to your original question. Yes people are renting cloud servers to build games and Amazon is going after that market segment. Take a look at https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/ For multi-player games it is likely a great fit. I have not checked but I bet the other cloud providers are looking at this market segment also. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||