how much?
As a molecule wobbler, it would be interesting to know how much the GPU's cost per day....?
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Microsoft is lobbing a bunch of GPUs into its Azure cloud to try and attract HPC-type workloads. The GPU-enabled VM option was one of two additions to the Azure lineup at its AzureCon conference – the other is Azure DV2, based on Intel's Haswell processor. The GPU option, Azure N, targets remote visualisation and “compute …
I wonder how well a VDI system would work on Azure...
Might be a worth-while service to get into as well, offer a thin client for the price of a single Windows license and include a full Office install in with it and some cloud storage / backup system. Throw in some proper malware protection, and I will pay so much money for two or three of them just to avoid having to take the two-state long car trip to fix their machine or to recover data after they forgot to back the thing up.
Something like this would work perfectly for such users:
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=xcto5040aiobtous&model_id=wyse-5000-aio-PCoIP&c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04
Yes, at one time MS wanted to own the super computer OS market... Now they have ONE computer in the top 500.... what a joke and how long before they get bored and pull the plug on this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500
"All the fastest supercomputers in the decade since the Earth Simulator supercomputer have used a Linux-based operating system. As of November 2014, 485 or 97% of the world's fastest supercomputers use the Linux kernel. Of the remaining 3%, the majority run the AIX Unix variant, with one running another Unix variant, one supercomputer running Windows, and one with a "mixed" operating system.[8] Within those 97% running Linux are the most powerful supercomputers including those ranking as the top ten."
HP RGS and VMware PCoIP make excellent use of the GPU... MS RDP... Not so much!