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.
| 231 |
Amazon Web Services |
Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instances – Amazon EC2 Cluster, Xeon X5570 2.95 Ghz, 10G Ethernet / 2010 |
7040 |
41.82 |
82.51 |
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
b: http://blog.mvdirona.com / http://perspectives.mvdirona.com