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Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud by tarpsocks on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @06:58PM (#2417359)
Am I missing something? If the performance scales linearly, they are at 1000 computers internally (1/10 * 10,000), and it was said to take 8 hours. That would only be 80 hours if they hadn't have used this service.

This makes me believe someone is lying about something in this article.

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Re:10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud by kalleboo on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @09:08PM (#2417767)
Perhaps their internal capacity is already tied up in other tasks, so while they have 1000 cores internally, they can't all be monopolized for 80 hours for a single task like the AWS machines can.
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