Scaling Amazon EC2 to 512 Nodes

So, you signed up for Amazon EC2 Cloud services. Mazal Tov! Now what?

There are two interesting questions here.

1) How do you architect an application to take advantage of the grid?

2) How well does this Amazon EC2 grid scale?

One possible answer to the first question is to use the Open Source GridGain product. These guys have really been making good strides in proving an easy Java API to gridify your apps.

The second question is answered by Max Gorbunov, who used a Monte Carlo simulation to test the scalability of Amazon EC2 using GridGain across 512 nodes.