The Top 500 Super Computer Sites list was just updated and AWS Compute Cluster is now officially in the top ½ of the list. That means when you line up all the fastest, multi-million dollar, government lab sponsored super computers from #1 through to #500, the AWS Compute Cluster Instance is at  #231. 

One of the fastest supercomputers in the world for $1.60/node hour. Cloud computing changes the economics in a pretty fundamental way.

More details at: High Performance Computing Hits the Cloud.

                                                                --jrh

James Hamilton

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