Jon Brodkin at arstechnica.com released an article yesterday reporting that Amazon’s cloud ranks no. 42 on the list of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers:
The list of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers came out yesterday with a top 10 that was unchanged from the previous ranking issued in June. But further down the list, a familiar name is making a charge: Amazon, with its Elastic Compute Cloud service, built a 17,024-core, 240-teraflop cluster that now ranks as the 42nd fastest supercomputer in the world.
Read the full article here.
