This is great.   Using them in a meaningful way though will require integrating a bunch of new amazon concepts into starcluster<br><br>  <a href="http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/">http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/</a><br>
<br>especially, connecting the &quot;cluster placement groups&quot; with starcluster&#39;s existing cluster concept and configuration options.     But I&#39;m sure Justin hasn&#39;t got anything else to work on :)   <br><br>
<br>d<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Austin Godber <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:godber@uberhip.com">godber@uberhip.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Guys,<br>
     I thought it&#39;s worth mentioning that Amazon just announced new<br>
instances targeted towards HPC, thats cool:<br>
<br>
Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large 23 GB memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute<br>
Units, 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform, 10 Gigabit<br>
Ethernet (<a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/" target="_blank">http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/</a>)<br>
<br>
$1.60/hr<br>
<br>
Note the 10 Gigabit Ethernet.<br>
<br>
Austin<br>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Starcluster mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Starcluster@mit.edu">Starcluster@mit.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/starcluster" target="_blank">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/starcluster</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br>