[ubuntu-cloud] Cluster Compute Instances

[Jonathan Marston]

Exciting news from amazon:  http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/07/the-new-amazon-ec2-instance-type-the-cluster-compute-instance.html

The new instance type looks quite powerful! The requirements for AMIs states:

"The Cluster Compute Instances use hardware-assisted (HVM) virtualization instead of the paravirtualization used by the other instance types and requires booting from EBS, so you will need to create a new AMI in order to use them. We suggest that you use our Centos-based AMI as a base for your own AMIs for optimal performance."

How would the Ubuntu EBS Lucid AMI fare? Any plans to support this instance type?

jon marston