Windows Azure Benchmarks Show Top Performance for Big Compute
This was an interesting read:
Following is a quote from this article (context of this quote is genome analysis):
“Over 1,000,000 tasks were scheduled by the HPC Pack over 72 hours, consuming the equivalent of 1.9 million compute hours. The same computation would have taken 25 years to complete on a single 8-core server.”
Wow. Pretty cool what can be done with commodity hardware :)