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"Google today announced the availability of a cloud-based supercomputing engine that app developers will be able to access. Apps that depend on extremely computational-intensive tasks \u2014 such as genetic sequencing \u2014 will be able to buy time on Google Compute Engine, potentially accelerating their tasks greatly.\nToday at its developer conference, Google I/O, Google showed the cloud engine directing 10,000 individual computing cores toward a gene-sequencing app, reducing the 10-minute time to complete a task to mere seconds.\nHowever, for apps that require even more computational power, and don't require much interaction with the data through input and output, Google Compute Engine can work overtime. In the onstage demo, Google said it was able to direct as many as 771,886 computing cores at a specific task \u2014 the total number of cores Google has available for the service, which continually increases. \n\nSEE ALSO: Chrome and Google Drive Land on iOS\nUsing 600,000 of those cores, the gene-sequencing app completed several of those 10-minute tasks every second.\nGoogle Compute Engine is similar to a service that Amazon offers, which employs unused cores in its EC2 cloud (a.k.a. Amazon Web Services) as a supercomputing service that businesses can buy time on. Amazon's EC2 is actually one of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world.\nWhat do you think of Google Compute Engine? Share your thoughts in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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