We have now launched a cluster 3 times the size of Tanuki, or 30,000 cores, which cost $1279/hour to operate for a Top 5 Pharma. It performed genuine scientific work — in this case molecular modeling — and a ton of it. The complexity of this environment did not necessarily scale linearly with the cores.
My reality tunnel
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September 20, 2011
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