Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud
by quail_bird on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @05:19PM
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better than might... you can: http://www.top500.org/system/10661
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Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud
by adestefan on Thursday April 07, 2011 @09:13AM
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Amazon can. That has no information about how the nodes were allocated. They could have hand picked X rack of nodes that were all connected via the same switch, etc. You don't get that guarantee from AWS.
Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud
by quail_bird on Thursday April 07, 2011 @12:19PM
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Fair enough, I guess.... they could have done many things.
Although they do not provide an answer, here are some links to additional info - I spent some time searching for additional info on the Top500 setup, but found little:
* http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/07/the-new-amazon-ec2-instan... * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904590