High Performance Computing at Amazon

“The cloud is truly revolutionizing all businesses and industries, including HPC,” says Amazon CTO Werner Vogel says in his pre-recorded keynote for SC10, the supercomputing industry event underway in New Orleans. Vogels used his video keynote to announced Amazon Web Services’ Cluster GPU Instance, a new offering that provides easy access to cloud-based GPU processing for the masses. Also presenting is Deepak Singh, Senior Business Development Manager at AWS, who describes the role of Hadoop MapReduce in the AWS strategy. This video runs about 8 minutes.

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About Rich Miller

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.