Amazon's Cluster GPU Instances is now on offer

AMAZON'S ELASTIC FANTASTIC Compute Cloud (EC2) called Cluster GPU Instances is now on offer to small businesses.

For many organisations, having access to large scale computing power is unaffordable because of the high capital investment. But Amazon claims that its Cluster GPU Instances can provide large scale computing power at a relatively low cost. The UK's number one digital camera seller explains that its high performance cluster uses Nvidia's Tesla GPUs.

Amazon says, "each GPU instance features two NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs, delivering peak performance of more than one trillion double-precision FLOPS." Amazon wasn't available for any further explanation.

For those of you with little to do and looking for a more powerful LAN for Doom multiplayer, these Cluster GPU Instances also provide 22GB of memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute Units, and access to a network that has "high throughput and low latency for HPC and data intensive applications." Low latency, now that is what you need for good multiplayer fragging action.

Amazon gives examples of those in industry that squander massive computing power on non-gaming activities. The guilty are oil and gas explorers, people who are doing graphics rendering and engineers designing stuff. µ