Super cluster of 30 thousand cores on Amazon EC2
Cycle Computing has successfully launched on Amazon EC2 a cluster of 3809 eight-core processors, which together gives a system with 30,472 cores, 27 TB of RAM and 2 PB of disk space. The Nekomata cluster (from Japanese, a type of monster cat ) runs on CentOS Linux.
With a capacity of about 200 TFlops, Nekomata could take 37th place in the list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The super cluster is mounted for one of the major pharmaceutical companies, whose name is not disclosed. The rental price is $ 1279 / hour at maximum load.
Control panel Nekomata (clickable)
Software CycleServer to manage the cluster based on Chef (open source) finalized. In addition to the control panel, improved programs for telemetry and visualization, in particular, now have graphics with the use of resources.
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The Nekomata cluster is actually distributed between three data centers — US West (California), US East (Northern Virginia) and EU-West (Ireland); the instances share HTTPS and SSH data; communication channels are encrypted with an AES-256 key.
To save money, Nekomata uses Spot instances ($ 0.286 per hour) rather than dedicated ones ($ 0.68 per hour), so the “supercomputer” takes about half an hour to load while it requests and installs new instances from Amazon. Due to cost reduction, Nekomata is much cheaper than the previous Tanuki super cluster on 10 thousand cores, which cost $ 1060 per hour.
via Cycle Computing
With a capacity of about 200 TFlops, Nekomata could take 37th place in the list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The super cluster is mounted for one of the major pharmaceutical companies, whose name is not disclosed. The rental price is $ 1279 / hour at maximum load.
Control panel Nekomata (clickable)
Software CycleServer to manage the cluster based on Chef (open source) finalized. In addition to the control panel, improved programs for telemetry and visualization, in particular, now have graphics with the use of resources.
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The Nekomata cluster is actually distributed between three data centers — US West (California), US East (Northern Virginia) and EU-West (Ireland); the instances share HTTPS and SSH data; communication channels are encrypted with an AES-256 key.
To save money, Nekomata uses Spot instances ($ 0.286 per hour) rather than dedicated ones ($ 0.68 per hour), so the “supercomputer” takes about half an hour to load while it requests and installs new instances from Amazon. Due to cost reduction, Nekomata is much cheaper than the previous Tanuki super cluster on 10 thousand cores, which cost $ 1060 per hour.
via Cycle Computing
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/128872/
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