Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud
by seldo on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @05:44PM
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That said, the last two Decembers we have had trouble instantiating new instances (in US-east-1a, their default and hence most popular location) in December. We solved the problem just by switching to US-east-1b for some tasks.
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Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud
by influx on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @08:17PM
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"In order to prevent an overloading of a single availability zone when everybody tries to run their instances in us-east-1a, Amazon has added a layer of indirection so that each account’s availability zones can map to different physical data center equivalents."