{"id":678,"date":"2011-09-20T18:35:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T23:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2012-09-12T21:27:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T02:27:53","slug":"1279-per-hour-30000-core-cluster-built-on-amazon-ec2-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The cluster, announced publicly this week, was created for an unnamed \u201cTop 5 Pharma\u201d customer, and ran for about seven hours at the end of July at a peak cost of $1,279 per hour, including the fees to Amazon and Cycle Computing. The details are impressive: 3,809 compute instances, each with eight cores and 7GB of RAM, for a total of 30,472 cores, 26.7TB of RAM and 2PB (petabytes) of disk space. Security was ensured with HTTPS, SSH and 256-bit AES encryption, and the cluster ran across data centers in three Amazon regions in the United States and Europe. The cluster was dubbed \u201cNekomata.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/news\/2011\/09\/30000-core-cluster-built-on-amazon-ec2-cloud.ars\">$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cluster, announced publicly this week, was created for an unnamed \u201cTop 5 Pharma\u201d customer, and ran for about seven hours at the end of July at a peak cost of $1,279 per hour, including the fees to Amazon and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=678\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[206,67,51,41],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-amazon","tag-cloud-computing","tag-clustering","tag-data-centers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/6208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}