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Ask HN: Why not GPU Clouds for big data Analysis?

3 pointsby n3thinover 11 years ago

2 comments

karterkover 11 years ago
Most of the time spent in typical &quot;big data&quot; analysis is actually I&#x2F;O. GPU doesn&#x27;t help in making the data reads&#x2F;writes any faster.<p>Keeping that aside for a moment, even though GPUs are the rage these days, it&#x27;s not very easy to integrate with them. For e.g. language binding. You also need to model your program in a way that optimizes for GPU-based processing.
mschuster91over 11 years ago
Actually, people are already doing this; Amazon e.g. provides GPU-heavy instances with (IIRC) Tesla GPUs.