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 > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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