Rent the world's 30th-fastest, 30,472-core supercomputer for $1,279 per hour | Linux Today

Rent the world’s 30th-fastest, 30,472-core supercomputer for $1,279 per hour

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 22, 2011

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“ycle Computing, a high-performance computing vendor, has
successfully bonded 3,809 eight-core Amazon AWS Elastic Compute 2
instances together to create a supercomputer cluster of 30,472
processor cores with 27TB of memory and 2PB of storage. The running
cost — or at least the cost you’ll have to pay Cycle for
dedicated access to the cluster — is just $1,279 per hour, or
about four cents per core.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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