Amazon Linux AMI with NVIDIA TESLA GPU Driver
NVIDIA | 2018.03.0.20201028.0Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2018.03 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Drivers are outdated and lacks ecs-agent
It's a trade-off between installing drivers or other services.
1-star lost for not having updated drivers even though drivers are the entire point of this AMI
2-star lost for not having the ecs-agent installed and ready
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No OpenGL GUI
Was not able to get an OpenGL enabled GUI to run on this platform so i wasn't able to test the features i needed to
Depends how you look at it
price wise
it is a fair deal as long as the job runs just for only a few hours.
Performance, however, is similar to a GForce 680 in terms of
GF/S so in case you have one, there is no point renting this instance.
Also a more recent GForce Titan or Radeon R9 has more computational power. Furthermore, it's just one card and not two like the previous version running two Tesla cards.
OpenCL performance is rather disappointing which seems to be inherently rooted to the Kepler Architecture. If you're developing CUDA only, this is not an issue but for porting from another GPU/APU
is not a good idea at all.
I thing Amazon should also consider AMD Radeon instance so that people have choice and can compare what kind of GPU fits their Job best.
That ~$0.65 an hour translates to $15 a day, ~$110 a week or over 400 bucks a month. For regular usage, you get already a much more powerful GPU for 400 bucks...
Do the math for yourself and ask yourself how much you are willing to pay for your GPU task.
Would I rent it again? Properly not.
Would I rent another instance with more GPU power? Maybe yes.