This is what cloud computing is all about.
cowboydroid on theverge.com
Our department which currently runs a 1000+ core machine and 2500+ core machine for MD simulations is still waiting on jumping onto the Amazon/Cloud bandwagon mostly because it's still not cheaper than owning a cluster for a few years.
michaelgrosner on news.ycombinator.com
If the calculations were so parallel, and it took 50k cores 3hrs, wouldn't it take their home cluster of 1.5k cores ~100hrs (a holiday weekend)?
FirsbeeFreek on arstechnica.com
Long row to hoe
Having been privy to the state-of-the-art projects in a lab with a ~5,000 node cluster it was still disappointing to see how rough the whole cell modeling approaches were.
jboggan on news.ycombinator.com
This is still too expensive for my field.
Aenean144 on theverge.com
Body talk
What needs to be done is a lot of slow, messy "wet bench" biology.
