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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/24/amazon_web_services_dedicated_hosts/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/24/amazon_web_services_dedicated_hosts/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This might be very interesting for HPC users in industry.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This makes sense when you consider CAE type packages:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Dedicated Hosts will appeal to bring-your-own-licence types, because they offer “visibility into the number of sockets and physical cores that are
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