Comment Re:1.21 PetaFLOPS (RPeak) (Score 1) 54
The one (slightly) novel aspect of this, presumably also made possible because the workload parallelized well, is the use of Spot Instances. As the name suggests, these aren't Amazon's standard fixed-price instances; but are rather instances whose price changes according to demand.
Even that isn't novel. Quoting some work done last year "Running a 10,000-node Grid Engine Cluster in Amazon EC2": "Also, we mainly requested for spot instances because
Doesn't make it less interesting for me though.