Utilizing GPUs in The Cloud

Aug 19th, 2014.

HPC, or High Performance Computing, is an area of research all about having more powerful computers. Increasingly we’re seeing more and more computing power available on-demand in the cloud, and one interesting development in this area is the usage of GPUs – Graphics Processing Units – in servers. Read more

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1,536 CUDA Cores
4GB Video Memory
1 On-Board Video Encoder
$0.650 an hour

The Making of OnMetal

Aug 5th, 2014.

At MaxCDN, we buy a lot of metal. We are obsessed with speed and our philosophy is that being as least abstracted as possible is best. While it's not the first bare metal provisioning platform, I'm excited about how it's architected, how transparent it is and to see future iterations. Read more

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4-5 minutes to spin up metal
512GB RAM
300,000 IOPs per second
1-minute billing
40 threads per instance

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