Descartes Labs, an outfit that analyses big data, has managed to nab the 136th spot on the top 500 list of the world's fastest publicly known supercomputers – with $5,000 and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account.
The AWS "supercomputer" has 41,472 cores, 157,824 GB RAM, and achieved 1,926.4 TFlop/s using the LINPACK benchmark.
"Our team merely followed the standard steps to request a 'placement group', or high-network throughput instance block, which is sort of like reserving a mini-Oakridge inside the AWS infrastructure," Descartes Labs commented. "We were granted access to a group of nodes in the AWS US-East 1 region for approximately $5,000 charged to the company credit card."
The system ran Amazon Linux 2 on normal EC2 instances and was managed by Descartes Labs CTO Mike Warren, using HashiCorp Packer to build automated machine images and MPI (Message Passing Interface) for parallel computing.
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