pulled off a petaflop on AWS with 156k cores for $33k They ran it for 18 hours. So that's $44k/day for 1 petaflop. This supercomputer is 130 petaflops. So let'

pulled off a petaflop on AWS with 156k cores for $33k They ran it for 18 hours. So that's $44k/day for 1 petaflop. This supercomputer is 130 petaflops. So let's pretend it scales lineally.. that's $5.7m/day. In just 30 days on AWS, you could buy the $173m supercomputer in the article. This isn't a serious alternative.