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Well, the title comes not from me, but from International Science Grid This Week. It is in response to Amazon’s announcement that it will be providing high-performance compute services. Readers of my earlier posts will see that one of Amazon’s weaknesses for science applications is that high-performance clusters offer superior performance for I/O-bound applications. It will be important for science apps to see how well Amazon’s HP services perform on the Montage image mosaic engine, the subject of earlier comparative studies. And to see what the costs are. In the meantime, read Craig Lee’s excellent article on the subject at iSGTW.
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