Amazon’s Cloud: A Supercomputer Anyone Can Rent

Amazon Cloud Computing

Amazon has one of the world’s fastest supercomputers. There’s something unusual about it, though — it’s not real. That is, it’s not real in the way other supercomputers are, in a huge room filled with glowing, humming racks of processors and storage. It’s in the cloud. Cloud computing gets a lot of attention, and deservedly so. Harnessing …

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