I once for the sake of it create a four node HPC cluster using Micro instances in the Amazon Cloud. Performance was dreadful http://manyrootsofallevilrants.bl

I once for the sake of it create a four node HPC cluster using Micro instances in the Amazon Cloud. Performance was dreadful http://manyrootsofallevilrants.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/amazon-ec2-micro-instance-linpack-hpl.html http://manyrootsofallevilrants.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/amazon.... Too much of cheap skate to test other instance sizes. I might try the free options in azure but then comparison wouldn't be like for like