Announcing GPUs for Google Cloud Platform Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Google Cloud will offer AMD FirePro S9300 x2 that supports powerful, GPU-based remote workstations. We'll also offer NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 and K80 GPUs for deep learning, AI and HPC applications that require powerful computation and analysis. GPUs are offered in passthrough mode to provide bare metal performance. Up to 8 GPU dies can be attached per VM instance including custom machine types. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E_xCJFAjS8I/WCnpTGlzJFI/AAAAAAAADRc/DQHKFSwRUbEwSRDn--cOrCiSG22Xh2_PgCLcB/s640/gpus.png

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/announcing-GPUs-for-Google-Cloud-Platform.html

CUDA is everywhere but AMD has no other choice but to play "good guy" here, which is amazing for open source development.

CUDA is everywhere but AMD has no other choice but to play "good guy" here, which is amazing for open source development.

It seems to me OpenCL is slowly gaining popularity. Due to it being platform-agnostic and a recent focus on Vulkan, it's becoming a more logical choice. AMD's OpenCL performance, at least on Linux, is significantly better than price-competitive Nvidia hardware. Anyway, nice to see AMD getting attention from such a large company. They need the sales.