$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud.
The original article from Compute Cycle can be found here. It has more details on how the cluster was built. They used the Condor scheduler and Opscode‘s Chef project for monitoring the instances.
In a related article, James Hamilton (Vice President on the Amazon Web Services team) discusses how spot instances in Amazon are a win/win trade-off for both Amazon and customers.
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