Behind Amazon’s Silk browser lurks a very fast supercomputer

We were hardly shocked to determine Fujitsu atop the newest list of the world’s fastest supercomputers , but perhaps more surprising is the truth that Amazon cracked the end 50, besides. Seems, the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers are powered by a Linux-based, 240-teraflop beast that boasts 17,024 cores, 66,000 GB of memory, and a 10 gigabit Ethernet interconnect. That’s good for 42nd place on Top 500′s global rankings, and additionally it is adequate to power Silk , the browser you will find at the Kindle Fire . But Amazon has far to move before catching up with the Fujitsu K, which recently cracked that vaunted ten petaflop barrier.

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