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Pretty soon someone will rent you GPUs by the hour, at which point you'd have the advantages of elasticity and price/performance.

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That actually sounds like a neat business.

It's easy to imagine EC2 expanding beyond 1U servers and databases to GPGPUs, FGPAs or quantum cores. There's a lot of potential for a gpu cloud - from quick rendering (xtraNormal/nVidia Gelato) to scientific computing (Larrabee?).

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