Supercomputing in the cloud...

In 1996 the fastest computers in the world reached about 1 teraflop in performance.  Today you can hop on EC2 and use one (or say, 8) for $17 / instance-hour.

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/11/cluster_gpu_instances_a...

These use NVIDIA GPUs with their CUDA API.  So taking advantage of the performance would require some custom coding.  But you can't beat that price.


Pat