New Amazon service: EC2 instances for HPC

12/10/2010

Amazon just announced a new instance type for High Performance Computing - relevant stats:
* 23 GB of memory
* 33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” architecture)
* 1690 GB of instance storage
* 64-bit platform
* I/O Performance: Very High (10 Gigabit Ethernet)
* API name: cc1.4xlarge
Pricing is coming in at $1.60/hour

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