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cabacon
on Aug 5, 2009
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What's faster - a supercomputer or EC2?
Actually, there are still strong oxen. Arguably, there are fewer people who need them, but they're out there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_(computer)#Cray_Inc.:_20...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Waters
, and others on 1+ petaflop front are pretty exotic beasts, and run codes that require all 100k+ processors to work in tandem across their speedy interconnects.
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