‘Monster Cat’ 30,472-core supercomputer may be yours for $1,279 an hour

Nicknamed after the paranormal “Nekomata” cat of Japanese nightmares, Cycle Computing’s monstrous new supercomputer can now be yours to hire for the low cost of $1,279 an hour. By fusing together the face-melting power of three,809 eight-core Amazon AWS Elastic Computer 2s , the corporate was ready to create the world’s 30th fastest computer with 30,472 processor cores and 27TB of memory — primarily used for complex modeling instead of Facebooking. Components of the beast hide out in three of Amazon’s EC2 data center lairs located in California, Virginia and Ireland, and communicate using HTTPS and SSH encrypted with AES-256 to maintain its secrets safe and secure. When compared with the company’s previous 10,000-core offering ($1,060 / hour), the brand new version is much more powerful and minimally dearer, mostly since it uses spot instances (where customers bid on unused EC2 capacity) instead of pricier reserved instances. Good on you Cycle Computing, not everyone has access to a Jeopardy champ.

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