I love living in the future.
Apr. 20th, 2012 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingCycleCloud tears through twelve and a half machine-years of computing in 3 hours, delivering a 51,000 core computer with 59 TB of RAM... for $5000/hr in machine fees.
Admittedly, they pulled every spare machine in Amazon's EC2 cloud to do it, but *they did it*. Utility supercomputing, for a teeny fraction of the cost of building and maintaining a real supercomputer.
Admittedly, they pulled every spare machine in Amazon's EC2 cloud to do it, but *they did it*. Utility supercomputing, for a teeny fraction of the cost of building and maintaining a real supercomputer.
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Date: 2012-04-21 04:54 pm (UTC)Being able to provision fifty thousand CPU cores in two hours, bill for it and then just drop it when you're done without ever touching a single piece of physical hardware is pretty goddamn incredible.
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Date: 2012-04-22 12:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-22 10:29 am (UTC)what-EVER.