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Re:Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute 2 - Slot 42 in the Top500 at 2... by parshap on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @04:28AM (#3237656)
The post doesn't mention the benchmark submitted to Top500 was with an array of ~1100 CC2 instances. (I think.)
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Re:Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute 2 - Slot 42 in the Top500 at 2... by Jabbles on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @05:36AM (#3237767)
http://www.top500.org/list/2011/11/100 says 17024 cores were present, so with 2 chips with 8 cores each that gives 1064 CC2 instances.
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Re:Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute 2 - Slot 42 in the Top500 at 2... by illumen on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @06:38AM (#3237880)
So that means about $2666 for an hour.
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Re:Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute 2 - Slot 42 in the Top500 at 2... by nivertech on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @08:50AM (#3238156)
And with spot?
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Re:Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute 2 - Slot 42 in the Top500 at 2... by jeffbarr on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @09:21AM (#3238229)
Here's a snapshot of the Spot Market pricing as of this morning:

http://media.amazonwebservices.com/ec2_spot_cc8_8xl_2011.png

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