30k core supercluster on Amazon EC2

    Cycle Computing has successfully launched a cluster of 3809 octa-core processors on Amazon EC2, which together provides a system with 30,472 cores, 27 TB of RAM and 2 PB of disk space. The Nekomata cluster (from Japanese, a kind of monster cat ) runs on CentOS Linux.

    With a performance of about 200 TFlops, Nekomata could take 37th place in the list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The supercluster is mounted for one of the largest pharmaceutical companies, the name of which was not disclosed. The rental price is $ 1279 / hour at maximum load. Nekomata control panel (clickable) CycleServer Chef- based cluster management software




    (open source) finalized. In addition to the control panel, telemetry and visualization programs have been improved, in particular, graphs using resources have now appeared. The Nekomata cluster is actually distributed between three data centers - US West (California), US East (North Virginia) and EU-West (Ireland); they exchange HTTPS and SSH data to instances; communication channels are encrypted with the AES-256 key. To save money, Nekomata uses Spot instances ($ 0.286 per hour) rather than allocated ones ($ 0.68 per hour), so the “supercomputer” takes about half an hour to download while it requests and installs new instances from Amazon. Thanks to cost savings, Nekomata costs significantly less than Tanuki's past supercluster





    on 10 thousand cores, the rent of which cost $ 1060 per hour.

    via Cycle Computing

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