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		amock on Nov 15, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS Compute Cluster #231 on Top 500 I think the two big changes are that the nodes have 10Gb network cards and full bisection bandwidth. They're also HVM instead of PVM but I don't know how much that matters for this benchmark.

RK on Nov 15, 2010 [–]

Internode bandwidth seemed to be the limiting factor cited in the paper, so that makes sense.

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