Performance acceleration with GPU instances - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Performance acceleration with GPU instances

GPU-based instances provide access to NVIDIA GPUs with thousands of compute cores. You can use these instances to accelerate scientific, engineering, and rendering applications by leveraging the CUDA or Open Computing Language (OpenCL) parallel computing frameworks. You can also use them for graphics applications, including game streaming, 3-D application streaming, and other graphics workloads.

Before you can activate or optimize a GPU-based instance, you must install the appropriate drivers, as follows:

  • To install NVIDIA drivers on an instance with an attached NVIDIA GPU, such as a P3 or G4dn instance, see NVIDIA drivers.

  • To install AMD drivers on an instance with an attached AMD GPU, such as a G4ad instance, see AMD drivers.

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