Amazon announced this morning that they’re offering a new node type in EC2 - HPC nodes! Yea, say goodbye to your huge linux cluster that you paid millions of dollars for, now you can get it on-demand from Amazon and spool-up with a click of a button! :) This should put some more companies out of business pretty quickly. SGI? Linux Networx? Aspen Systems?

Basically, the node type is the same, but the nodes are guaranteed to all be high-CPU, co-located and have some special low-latency network cards in them.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/?ref_=pe_2170_16291170

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