Service: Hoopoe - GPU Cloud

I posted several notes in the last year regarding the niche market of GPU cloud services and why current cloud computing providers such as Amazon AWS that are based on the XEN and VMware virtual instances (hypervisor based) cannot fit them.

Hoopoe is a new service that is focused on this niche market and provides GPU services in the cloud based on NVIDIA TESLA CUDA devices. This service is integrated with Amazon S3.

Hoopoe will be presented by Mordechai Butrashvily in the next IGT GPGPU Meeting at Nov 10, 2009 14:30-17:00.

To reserve your place, send your contact details to info at grid dot org dot il

Keep Performing,
Moshe Kaplan. RockeTier. The Performance Experts.

GPU Cloud - VMware moves ahead?

Hi,

Since I wrote about GPU cloud a week ago, I met another two software companies which are interested in this issue.

Is there any change in the foreseen future? The following post by Michael Larabel reveals a possible answer: "Tungsten Graphics has been acquired by VMware. Open source graphics technology development will continue as part of VMware's engineering team". VMware is the leading virtualization player in the market (but weaker in the cloud market) and this move will probably lead to "improving the 3D support within virtualized environments".

Probably, a move of a key technology player will enable cloud service providers provide better GPU support in the future.

Moshe,
RockeTier

GPU Cloud

Hi,

We are conducting a survey for one of our clients, that is interested in migrating its highly intensive rich media generation system into the cloud.
Since common cloud computing providers lack of a good GPU support, we looked for a niche player in this field.
However, we did not found one. To be more precise, it seems that we are not the only one who looked for this solution.
Seems like a great opportunity for hosting provider, who wants to find its niche in this growing business,

Ciao,
Moshe,
RockeTier