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My first software-defined supercompute cluster

2013-11-25

This week on the Adaptive Computing blog, I write about what it was like to start up a modest supercomputer on the Amazon cloud. Check it out

Supercomputing hardware is cool, as this photo of the ALMA correlator in Chile demonstrates. But it’s hard to beat the amazing flexibility of software-based clusters in the cloud. Photo credit: ESO (Wikimedia Commons)