Amazon EC2 running SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 from SUSE is a proven platform for development, test, and production workloads. With more than 6,000 certified applications from over 1,500 independent software vendors, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a versatile Linux platform that provides superior reliability and security. This offering comes with automatic maintenance that keeps the operating system up-to-date with SUSE's most current security patches, bug fixes and new features to deliver peak performance.

This image uses 64-bit architecture, and HVM based virtualization for use with Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instances. The Nvidia driver installs automatically during startup on Cluster GPU instances.