Amazon’s Cluster Compute is a cloud supercomputing beast. And the best part? It’s pay-per-use: just pay a small fee per hour. What more could you ask for?
Amazon’s powerful Cluster Compute, released Tuesday, is Amazon’s most powerful cloud server yet. The system will run Linux, according to Ars Technica. Amazon states that each node will consist of a pair of Intel Xeon X5570s with 2.93 GHz and 8MB of on-chip cache memory so that the customer can design for that specific hardware. Also, for improved performance, the nodes will have 10 Gigabyte-per-second Ethernet interfaces connecting them. .
