Amazon EC2 now offers Tesla GPUs

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Amazon just announced the availability of Tesla GPUs with their cloud computing service EC2. Each instance gives you access to two Tesla M2050 (GTX 470) GPUs with 3GB(!) of VRAM each for only $2.10 per instance hour. Here are the rest of the specs:
The Cluster GPU instance family currently contains a single instance type, the Cluster GPU Quadruple Extra Large with the following specifications:

22 GB of memory
33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” architecture)
2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs
1690 GB of instance storage
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: Very High (10 Gigabit Ethernet)
API name: cg1.4xlarge
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

According to the press release MentalImages' iRay and Reality Server are also supported. No doubt due to nVidia:
“The availability of NVIDIA Tesla(R) GPUs in the AWS cloud in the form of Amazon Cluster GPU Instances running the RealityServer(R) platform with the iray(R) renderer will provide architects, product designers, engineers, scientists and others with extraordinarily powerful tools that they can remotely access on mobile devices, PCs and other devices. Our tests have shown more than 90 percent scaling efficiency on clusters of up to 128 GPUs each.”
It would be great to see Octane on EC2, especially as support improves for various animation features (RIB in particular). At $2.10 an hour it will only cost you $50 a day (24 hours) for access to a pair of GTX 470s with 3GB VRAM.
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