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Show HN: GPU-backed Linux desktops in the cloud

23 pointsby DTEover 8 years ago

3 comments

MichaelBurgeover 8 years ago
I&#x27;ve considered setting up my own GPU server to reduce costs, but if you&#x27;ve got P100s for $200&#x2F;month that means you&#x27;re paying off the hardware in 4 years? I can&#x27;t compete with that. AWS was much easier to justify, since they&#x27;re more expensive so the payoff is shorter. I was waiting on Google cloud&#x27;s pricing to make any decision there:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;gpu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;gpu&#x2F;</a><p>The only thing that concerns me is that your GPU+ instances only have a single P100, while someone like Google promises to let you attach up to 8 to a single machine. So if I wanted a single powerful machine for experimental work, the cloud providers are more expensive. But I&#x27;d have the same problem with buying my own hardware, because those cards are expensive.<p>If you have only a single GPU, have you done any performance testing comparing consumer GPUs like the GTX 1080 with the commercial GPUs? I believe two advantages of the commercial ones are 1. Better interlinks between multiple GPUs and 2. Better floating point performance at the precision used in deep learning. Advantage #1 seems like it wouldn&#x27;t matter with only a single GPU. I think AWS only has K80s, so that&#x27;s in your favor.<p>What motherboards&#x2F;RAM&#x2F;CPU&#x2F;etc. are you using? If my estimate is right and you are pricing for a 4-year payoff just for capex, listing all of the hardware would make it an easy sell.
evervevdww221over 8 years ago
This looks great. great execution! What gpu do I have? how much video memory?<p>I knew about paperspace the day it came out of yc.<p>at the time, we were working on a competing product.<p>but we eventually gave up on the idea. because business wise, amazon is too expensive for this kind of service, making the price not economical for end users.<p>I don&#x27;t know too much about the technical details of paperspace, but I believe we did better at resource sharing and cost management. but it was still a tough sell, even for enterprise users.
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rco8786over 8 years ago
any plans&#x2F;thoughts on Windows support?
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