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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,
by 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 agoFair 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