Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute 2 - Slot 42 in the Top500 at 240.09 teraFLOPS (aws.typepad.com) 34 points by jeffbarr 14y ago ↗ HN
[–] parshap 14y ago ↗ The post doesn't mention the benchmark submitted to Top500 was with an array of ~1100 CC2 instances. (I think.) [–] Jabbles 14y ago ↗ 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. [–] illumen 14y ago ↗ So that means about $2666 for an hour. [–] nivertech 14y ago ↗ And with spot? [–] jeffbarr 14y ago ↗ Here's a snapshot of the Spot Market pricing as of this morning:http://media.amazonwebservices.com/ec2_spot_cc8_8xl_2011.png
[–] Jabbles 14y ago ↗ 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. [–] illumen 14y ago ↗ So that means about $2666 for an hour. [–] nivertech 14y ago ↗ And with spot? [–] jeffbarr 14y ago ↗ Here's a snapshot of the Spot Market pricing as of this morning:http://media.amazonwebservices.com/ec2_spot_cc8_8xl_2011.png
[–] illumen 14y ago ↗ So that means about $2666 for an hour. [–] nivertech 14y ago ↗ And with spot? [–] jeffbarr 14y ago ↗ Here's a snapshot of the Spot Market pricing as of this morning:http://media.amazonwebservices.com/ec2_spot_cc8_8xl_2011.png
[–] nivertech 14y ago ↗ And with spot? [–] jeffbarr 14y ago ↗ Here's a snapshot of the Spot Market pricing as of this morning:http://media.amazonwebservices.com/ec2_spot_cc8_8xl_2011.png
[–] jeffbarr 14y ago ↗ Here's a snapshot of the Spot Market pricing as of this morning:http://media.amazonwebservices.com/ec2_spot_cc8_8xl_2011.png
6 comments
[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 28.5 ms ] threadhttp://media.amazonwebservices.com/ec2_spot_cc8_8xl_2011.png
So...can we get 64bit small instances?