AWS machine learning VMs go faster, but not forward - TechCentral.ie

Latest iteration of Amazon's GPU-powered VMs for machine learning make a big speed leap, but they still use previous-generation Nvidia Kepler GPUs Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new generation of GPU-powered cloud computing instances aimed squarely at customers running machine learning applications. The P2's a major step up from the previous generation of GPU-powered AWS instances, and it has plenty of memory to burn. But it is built with an earlier generation of GPU, so it is less suited for the bleeding-edge machine learning work that needs the most recent advances in GPU technology. Amazon is currently billing the G2 as suitable for "graphics-intensive applications," rather than machine learning specifically. The P2, on the other hand, is definitely for machine learning.