[Gllug] Lots of computing power required - is Amazon EC2 an answer?

John Hearns hearnsj at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 1 09:36:23 UTC 2011


On 1 July 2011 00:20, Sanatan Rai <sanatan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> If you want to parallelise computations, then you will have to do the legwork
> to set up enough EC2 instances. You might get lucky and there might be some
> images already available, but you will still have to pay for all the instances.

There was a Register article recently on a company called cycle computing,
who do all the legwork for you:


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/06/cycle_computing_hpc_cloud/
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