![]() ![]() AWS tested the HPC waters with Nvidia “Kepler” K80 accelerators back in 2016 and jumped straight to the “Volta” V100s a year later, and has put out two variations of these Volta instances – the first based on Intel’s “Broadwell” Xeon E5 CPUs, and the other used a fatter “Skylake” Xeon SP processor – and two variations based on the “Ampere” A100 GPUs – one using A100s with 40 GB of memory and the other using A100s with 80 GB of memory. It is interesting to be reminded that AWS skipped the “Pascal” P100 generation in these P-class instances that had somehow escaped us. The P5 instances are the fourth generation of GPU-based compute nodes that AWS has fielded for HPC simulation and modeling and now AI training workloads – there is P2 through P5, but you can’t have P1 – and across these, there have been six generations of GPU nodes based on various Intel and AMD processors and Nvidia accelerators. ![]() But the cloud providers like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon Web Services are trying to get their pieces of this AI training action, and it is with this in mind that we took our trusty Excel spreadsheet out and analyzed the heck out of the P5 GPU instances from AWS, which are based on Nvidia’s “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerators. The cost of AI hardware, whether you buy it or rent it, is the dominant expense of AI startups the world over, and at this point somewhere around 80 percent to 85 percent of the money in these systems is going to Nvidia for GPUs, system boards, and networking. What was true of mainframes in the late 1980s and early 1990s – good heavens, is this stuff expensive – is true of GPU-accelerated systems, which are creating the gravity at the core of the AI galaxy. It gets jaggy, and sometimes, vendors are opportunistic and they charge a premium for capacity just because they can. And sometimes, customers buying expensive and vital systems just have to grin and bear it because there is not perfect elasticity of demand and supply that makes all those curves as smooth as they looked in the textbooks. And what we learned from this, among many things, is the concept that the price of a thing is what the market will bear. The laws of supply and demand rule our lives as much as the laws of electromagnetic radiation and gravity, and plotting out those pricing curves and seeing the effects of supply shortages and demand collapse, and the phenomenon of diminished marginal returns, was fascinating.īut when we started in the IT industry, the real illustration of supply and demand came from creating quarterly pricing guides for new and secondhand mainframe and minicomputer systems. Both microeconomics and macroeconomics stand out, as does poetry writing, philosophy, and religious studies despite the focus on engineering and American literature. $0.It is funny what courses were the most fun and most useful when we look back at college. Virtual desktops, medium sized single instance databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, latency sensitive interactive applications, boot volumes, and dev/test environments General Purpose SSD volume that balances price performance for a wide variety of transactional workloads Lowest cost SSD volume that balances price performance for a wide variety of transactional workloads To learn more about pricing, visit the Amazon EBS pricing page. For applications that need higher durability, latency, or IOPS than gp3 can provide, we recommend using io2 volumes. gp3 volumes are ideal for a wide variety of applications that require high performance at low cost, including MySQL, Cassandra, virtual desktops, and Hadoop analytics clusters. For use cases where your application needs more performance than the baseline, you simply provision the IOPS or throughput you need, without having to add more capacity. The new gp3 volumes are designed to provide a predictable, baseline performance of 3,000 IOPS regardless of the volume size. This means customers only pay for the storage they need. With gp3 volumes, customers can scale IOPS (input/output operations per second) and throughput without needing to provision additional block storage capacity. Amazon EBS gp3 volumes are the latest generation of general-purpose SSD-based EBS volumes that enable customers to provision performance independent of storage capacity, while providing up to 20% lower price per GB than existing gp2 volumes. ![]()
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