16/05/27 08:01:08.69 R5g0lXpk.net
Amazon Testing New Cloud Service for AI Software
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Amazon's new service will let businesses run different frameworks on its
computers, including those created by rivals such as Google, which introduced
one called TensorFlow last year, according to the people familiar with the situation.
The service will use a new type of rentable computer from Amazon that has
eight graphical processing units from Nvidia, up from four available on Amazon
computers today, the people said. GPUs are a common type of semiconductor
widely used to run AI programs. The more GPUs, the faster Amazon's computers
can run AI software and crunch related data.
It's unlikely to end with eight GPUs in one computer, though. Last year, an Amazon researcher showed how the company could run this kind of AI work on as many as 80 computers as the same time.