Podcasts Technology Screaming in the Cloud Episode 73 - Building a Cloud Supercomputer on AWS with Mike Warren

Episode 73 - Building a Cloud Supercomputer on AWS with Mike Warren

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 10 a.m.

b'Supercomputers used to be gigantic monstrosities that would take up enormous rooms. Now, you can run them in the cloud. Just ask Mike Warren, CTO and co-founder of Descartes Labs, a company that provides Earth imagery to help folks understand planetary changes\\u2014like deforestation, water cycles, agriculture, and more. Join Corey and Mike as they discuss what it\\u2019s like to build supercomputers on top of AWS and how \\u201ceasy\\u201d it is, the power of Amazon\\u2019s Spot blocks, building Beowulf clusters in the \\u201890s, what Descartes Labs\\u2019 platform-agnostic infrastructure looks like (spoiler alert: nothing is on-prem), how AWS accelerates the development process, petaflop machines, the evolution of high-performance computing over the last few decades, and more.'