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Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud by wmf on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @05:44PM (#2417120)
Thanks to the spot market there should be little or no idle capacity.
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Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud by nraynaud on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @05:49PM (#2417137)
my guess is more like you have waves of computation, with a mass effect of people targeting the cheap spots.
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