[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“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.”