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better than might... you can: http://www.top500.org/system/10661 http://www.top500.org/system/10661

• adestefan 16y ago
  Amazon can. That has no information about how the nodes were allocated. They could have hand picked X rack of nodes that were all connected via the same switch, etc. You don't get that guarantee from AWS.
  • quail_bird 16y ago
    Fair enough, I guess.... they could have done many things. Although they do not provide an answer, here are some links to additional info - I spent some time searching for additional info on the Top500 setup, but found little: * http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/07/the-new-amazon-ec2-instance-type-the-cluster-compute-instance.html http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/07/the-new-amazon-ec2-instan... * http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904590 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904590