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Windows Azure[^]:
Windows Azure now offers customers a cloud platform that can cost effectively and reliably meet the needs of Big Compute. With a massively powerful and scalable infrastructure, new instance configurations, and a new HPC Pack 2012, Windows Azure is designed to be the best platform for your Big Compute applications. In fact, we tested and validated the power of Windows Azure for Big Compute applications by running the LINPACK benchmark. The network performance was so impressive... that we submitted the results and have been certified as one of the Top 500 of the world’s largest supercomputers.

151.3 TFlops on 8,064 cores with 90.2 percent efficiency.