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Ask HN: Why not GPU Clouds for big data Analysis?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6806701

by n3thin • 13 years ago

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mschuster91• 13 years ago

Actually, people are already doing this; Amazon e.g. provides GPU-heavy instances with (IIRC) Tesla GPUs.

karterk• 13 years ago

Most of the time spent in typical "big data" analysis is actually I/O. GPU doesn't help in making the data reads/writes any faster.

Keeping that aside for a moment, even though GPUs are the rage these days, it's not very easy to integrate with them. For e.g. language binding. You also need to model your program in a way that optimizes for GPU-based processing.

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