[tarpsocks]

Am I missing something? If the performance scales linearly, they are at 1000 computers internally (1/10 * 10,000), and it was said to take 8 hours. That would only be 80 hours if they hadn't have used this service.

This makes me believe someone is lying about something in this article.

[kalleboo]

Perhaps their internal capacity is already tied up in other tasks, so while they have 1000 cores internally, they can't all be monopolized for 80 hours for a single task like the AWS machines can.