Amazon for EC2 system, serving the cloud storage, recently ordered a batch of NVIDIA accelerators 10,000 Tesla K10, combining two GK104 GPUs and 2 x 4 Gb GDDR5 memory .
The recommended price of such accelerator is $ 4999, but on sale it can be find for $ 3399. However, the buyer of large batch has a even higher discount: each accelerator will cost Amazon from $ 1499 to $ 1799. Additional warranty with instant replacement of accelerator will cost another $ 500 a year for each accelerator, Amazon expects to finance the guarantee program for two to three years. Associate said that this order is one of the reasons of deficit for cards based on GK104 as a whole, and the GeForce GTX 690 in particular.
The accelerator Tesla K20 processor is based on GK110, which is available only for the needs of supercomputers manufacturers. The demand for Tesla K20 is so great that even the prices of the big parties do not fall below the recommended $ 3199.