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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

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By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. for November 2010 was released and an Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instance based cluster came in at #231. Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. Comments ().

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

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This team is constantly rethinking the assumptions behind how traditional databases were built and constantly working on building the right database architectures suited for the Cloud environment. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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Around the World in 28 Days - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 30 September 2010 04:27 AM. Visiting future customers is equally exiting as you get a change to understand their current architecture, if it is a migration, and how they plan to exploit cloud services in their new setup. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. All Things Distributed.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. All Things Distributed.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

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By Werner Vogels on 05 December 2010 02:00 PM. While registrars manage the namespace in the DNS naming architecture, DNS servers are used to provide the mapping between names and the addresses used to identify an access point. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well.