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Re:Amazon Orders More than 10,000 Nvidia Tesla cards by srunni on Friday October 05, 2012 @12:58AM (#4615734)
> If you have a random data analysis problem that would take your computer three weeks, why not just pay $10 and get it done in two hours (plus a few hours of debugging)?

I'm facing this very problem myself right now with some GPU-bound calculations. The issue for me is that the software I'm using isn't free, so I'm stuck running it on the one machine that I do have a license for it to run on. It's a very frustrating situation to be in, as the hardware isn't so great.

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Re:Amazon Orders More than 10,000 Nvidia Tesla cards by Nick_C on Friday October 05, 2012 @06:25AM (#4616302)
I wonder if this might be a game changer for software like Matlab, SAS, et al. A licence would buy you the right to one install locally and one on a cloud server. (Although last time I had anything to do with Matlab licensing and user negotiation, they move at a pace common to that of glaciers. With the same temperature.)
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