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Does anyone know what the effective bandwidth and latency would be between machines? They talk about thousands of cores a little too casually. I guess they mean unrelated independent instances of some task as opposed to actual parallelism. I am confused as to what market segment they are going for here.
http://blog.zencoder.com/2012/07/23/first-look-at-google-com...
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It's KVM on Sandy Bridge; effectively the same as EC2 cluster compute. http://blog.zencoder.com/2012/07/23/first-look-at-google-com...
Where in that article does it say anything about KVM or sandy bridge?
These are paid services but before I'd jump in, Google would have to guarantee this service for say 5 years, with updates and no catch (like increasing the price by 5000% to force you out.) Microsoft is a lot of things, but one they do good is guaranteed, long term, support for their products. At least for the core ones. For example they are still supporting Windows XP, so when Coca Cola signs at the dotted line they…