
GPUs in the Cloud
Andrew Sheppard(Author)
O'Reilly (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
50 pages
978-1-4493-0326-6 (ISBN)
Description
GPUs have been increasingly used as tools for high-performance computation, in addition to graphics. They play a major role in finance, bioinformatics, image processing, artificial intelligence, and other areas that require extremely high computational performance. Amazon has noticed this trend, and recently added GPU instances to EC2. This book shows you how to use Amazon's EC2 GPU instances effectively, whatever your problem domain.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4493-0326-6 (9781449303266)
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After earning a first-class honor's degree in astrophysics, Andrew made the mistake of going on to earn higher degrees: a master's in astronomical technology at Edinburgh University (UK) and a master's in business administration at the London Business School (UK). This period of time and that which followed was punctuated with work as a scientific researcher at Oxford University, as a software developer, and later, as a "Rocket Scientist" at Bankers Trust Company in the financial square mile of the city of London, as well as in New York and Tokyo. A lot of heartache and financial anguish could have been avoided throughout had he become what is clearly the optimal career choice for anyone anywhere: a master plumber. Nowhere on the planet is there a poor or unemployed master plumber! Too late to correct past follies, Andrew now makes his living writing software, books, and magazine articles.