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Out of curiosity, can you... run video games with it?

No. The K80 is a Compute-only device from NVIDIA (i.e., it won't run OpenGL or DirectX). We've previously announced that cards with Display are coming "soon".

Actually, the K80 does run OpenGL. Source: I'm building a remote rendering solution that runs on a couple of K80's, and it works just fine.

No, but there are guides out there to use SteamLink for gaming on EC2.

https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...

... if you can deal with the 250-2000ms display lag sure

and you have to use a remote windowing dealie

I'm only 23ms from us-west1. See my other note about OpenGL/DirectX right now, but you shouldn't assume anything like those round-trip times...

Is that number based on your experience using it this way with something like RDP/TurboVNC, or anecdotal based on other cloud providerS?

I tried with AWS GPU once and only once. Probably if you spend time and effort you can get it down a fair bit

From my experience, network in GCE is way more stable and usable than it's AWS counterpart. So maybe we can see another OnLive rise again ;)

(I'm joking, but there has to be a day when it's possible, right?)

Don't use Wi-Fi. My lag was 300ms from my desktop to US-West-2 and then I used an ethernet cable and it dropped to 30ms.

I use ethernet for that sort of thing. I did get 200ms and 2000ms latency regularly anyhow

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