Amazon Launches High Performance Cloud
Theoretically, a 128-node cluster of the new Amazon EC2 instances would qualify as the 50th fastest computer in the world. The new instance type enables a wide variety of calculation-intensive workloads for applications that include energy exploration, weather prediction, graphics rendering, and video transcoding. And, oh, it is also good for enabling encryption code breaking and identity theft.
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