I built a 100-core cluster in AWS and did some testing on it using the AWS
spot market, but never ran TranSims or EpiSims on it.  I've got a white
paper on this that's awaiting publication as a letter to the editor in
Nature.

--Doug


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]>
>  wrote:
>
>>
>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/01/03/232259/supercomputer-repossessed-by-state-may-be-sold-in-pieces
>>
>
> What was the fuss at the time, I forget the specifics.
>
> It seemed to me that really fast internet, which NM does not like, would
> have been required for its use.  Wasn't that the grand plan? ..
> institutions would use it remotely?
>
> I'd far rather have HUGE internet bandwidth so that I could quickly
> configure Amazon instances for large computations that I fed massive data
> to and from via a fast network.
>
> BTW: did TranSim and its related projects ever try Amazon?  Likely the
> routing between instances wouldn't be sufficient, but not that familiar
> with the architecture.
>
> Over simplification, I realize, but nowadays it seems like supercomputing
> without a network is like a BMW without wheels.
>
>    -- Owen
>
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