All the hype smother Amazon at the moment centres on theKindle Fire . But behind the scene , they ’ve been developing one of the universe ’s most muscular super computers — and it power theFire ’s web browser app , Silk .
The list of the world’s500 immobile supercomputerscame out this hebdomad . The top 10 , as usual , are owned by universities and research organisations .
Look down the list , though , and at act 42 appear Amazon , with itsElastic Compute Cloud(EC2 ) service . Made by the ship’s company itself , this thing features 17,024 processing cores , 66,000Gb of memory and a 10 Gigabit Ethernet interconnect
Customers can engage out hours of the EC2 overhaul . Though you ca n’t use all the processing power at once , for less than $ 1,000 dollars anybody can have access to grunt that would alone snag a seat in the top 500 list .
No curiosity Amazon Silk , the Fire ’s vane web web browser , is capable to make use of the cloud to keep it zipping along . I just inquire when they ’ll reach the top 10 . [ Ars Technica ; Image : kosheahan ]
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