AWS G and P Series EC2 Instances: Rendering, Gaming and Machine Learning

Pricing

Who is the Target Audience?

Increase vCPU Service Quota for G Series Instances

1. Go to the Service Quotas → Manage Quotas: ‘Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud’ → Search for ‘Running On-Demand G and VT instances’ → Request increase at account level.

Launch Instance with Proper Configurations:

1. Launch instances → Provide proper name.
2. Operating System: Here I am going to use Windows Server 2022 Base, because it is simple and easy to use.
3. Select instance: g4dn.xlarge

Connecting to the EC2:

1. Go to your instance → Connect to instnace → RDS Client → Get password.

Installing NVIDIA Drivers:

• NVIDIA GRID Drivers:

1. Open PowerShell as Administrator.
2. Copy and Paste Following Commands one by one to the PowerShell.

$Bucket = "ec2-windows-nvidia-drivers"

$KeyPrefix = "latest"

$LocalPath = "$home\Desktop\NVIDIA"

$Objects = Get-S3Object -BucketName $Bucket -KeyPrefix $KeyPrefix -Region us-east-1

foreach ($Object in $Objects) {$LocalFileName = $Object.Keyif ($LocalFileName -ne '' -and $Object.Size -ne 0) {    $LocalFilePath = Join-Path $LocalPath $LocalFileName    Copy-S3Object -BucketName $Bucket -Key $Object.Key -LocalFile $LocalFilePath -Region us-east-1}}

• NVIDIA Gaming Driver:

1. Open PowerShell as Administartor.
2. Run Following Commands one by one:

$Bucket = "nvidia-gaming"

$KeyPrefix = "windows/latest"

$LocalPath = "$home\Desktop\NVIDIA"

$Objects = Get-S3Object -BucketName $Bucket -KeyPrefix $KeyPrefix -Region us-east-1

foreach ($Object in $Objects) {$LocalFileName = $Object.Keyif ($LocalFileName -ne '' -and $Object.Size -ne 0) {    $LocalFilePath = Join-Path $LocalPath $LocalFileName    Copy-S3Object -BucketName $Bucket -Key $Object.Key -LocalFile $LocalFilePath -Region us-east-1}}

New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvlddmkm\Global" -Name "vGamingMarketplace" -PropertyType "DWord" -Value "2"

reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvlddmkm\Global" /v vGamingMarketplace /t REG_DWORD /d 2

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://nvidia-gaming.s3.amazonaws.com/GridSwCert-Archive/GridSwCertWindows_2024_02_22.cert" -OutFile "$Env:PUBLIC\Documents\GridSwCert.txt"

nvidia-smi.exe -q

NICE DVC

1. Go the https://download.nice-dcv.com/ and download NICE DCV Server.

my-dcv-server.com:8443#console

Enable Temporary Storage Drive:

1. Right click on Windows icon and go to Disk Management, on the launch of Disk Management you will prompt with Initialize Disk option, where you can select GPT and ok.

1. Download your prefered Blender version from https://www.blender.org/download/
2. After Installing Blender open it, we need to made some changes in blender to use GPU.
3. Go to the Edit → Preferences → System → Cycles Render Devices → Optix → Select Tesla T4 → save Preferences.

What About Gaming on Tesla T4?

What About Unreal Engine 5 on Tesla T4?

Machine Learning

Conclusion

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