Highly Affordable Computing (HAC)

Slashdot reports that Amazon will let you use a powerful Xeon-based machine for $0.10 per hour. This means that for $10 per hour, you can have 100 machines cranking away on some task. You need to be a Linux user though. That’s what I call Highly Affordable Computing.

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Daniel Lemire

A computer science professor at the University of Quebec (TELUQ).

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