Web hosting division of Amazon today offered to business users cloud servicov Amazon Web Services a new service - rental power rack servers in very large scale. Obtained in this way "cloud supercomputer can be used in scientific, business or other purposes. In the Amazon say that with the new service to acquire their own, albeit virtual, a supercomputer can even medium-sized science labs, not in possession of millions of dollars to purchase real supercomputer.
 
 The new service is called Cluster Compute and he actually represents a further development of the main cloud service Amazon - Elastic Computer Cloud. In contrast to the usual Amazon EC2, in Cluster Compute available for ordering more CPU power and more speed network interconnect for fast transfer of large amounts of data.
 
 As the base OS for the cluster is proposed Linux, but users may be completely free to determine the necessary software, such as specialized applications for parallel computing.
 
 With regard to power Cluster Compute, then starting power of one supercomputer is in 8,5 times more than the power of the most advanced version of Amazon EC2. As a processor for the new server using Intel Xeon 5570.