I am in the market for a cloud GPU offering, and I have to say the big cloud providers are very uncompetitive here, only offering these old, slow GPUs.
For display it's still a fine part. The P100 is also a beast, so its overkill for most people just doing Remote Desktop. So perhaps the M60 (like with Azure) fills this market segment for them, and they don't mind the hardware diversity.
[Edit: Too sleepy. A post down below reminds us that these are G-series and G is for Graphics. So yeah, I assume they just didn't want to wait for enough P4 parts in volume or will quickly make another such announcement about the Pascals].
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
Out of curiosity, why OpenCL on AMD rather than OpenCL on say a K80 or AWS's M60s or upcoming P100s? (That is, are you blocked on having an AMD part, or do you have a great reason to prefer AMD for compute)
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and want to sell you GPUs!)
Overall though, I would basically consider opencl "AMD's thing".
((Next Generation) (GPU EC2 Instances)) rather than ((Next Generation GPU) (EC2 Instances)) :)
It's one thing if one of them is like that, but if all of them are like that, maybe it's not because of the cloud providers?
https://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/gpu/ https://www.exoscale.ch/gpu/ http://www.cirrascale.com/cloud/plans.aspx http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu-cloud-computing.html
Last link has a list of vendors. The one I used gave you a bare bones machine running some Linux distro, with no platform bullshit around it. Exactly what you need for deep learning work.
Yes. Nvidia has real competition from AMD in consumer graphics but no competition in enterprise. Their consumer cards are sold at a competitive price while their enterprise cards are marked way up.
If cloud providers were really smart, they'd release cheaper/just-as-fast instances with consumer cards, but Nvidia probably doesn't want to do that deal; they'd prefer to push teslas as the standard for GPGPU, even if they have to mark them down for cloud providers.
> It's one thing if one of them is like that, but if all of them are like that, maybe it's not because of the cloud providers?
I'm suggesting Nvidia is offering great deals on teslas to cloud providers but not offering those same discounts on 1080s; they're doing that because it lends support to their pitch to enterprises that they need Teslas instead of their competitively priced consumer line; if everyone was paying list price, cloud providers would be offering 1080s.
Even with all that, cloud GPU is not cost effective and end users are better off buying their own "consumer grade" stuff.
Disclosure: I own HPC for AWS (among other things) and used to own instances
They didn't say newest generation, only next and next may in this case refer to
- "next after kepler" (parent's assumptions) or
- "next after current" (other commenters' assumption)