Hurricane Sandy impact to GPU Science

Editor | 29 October, 2012

As Hurricane Sandy swept north and toward landfall the East Coast of the United States data centers did their things to prepare. Dubbed “Frankenstorm”, Hurricane Sandy has already ravaged the Caribbean. Right now, millions of people scrambling to prepare for what may be one of the worst Hurricanes in a decade. Given several highly publicized Amazon outages over the past year, we will be watching Amazon Web Services’ US-1 data center complex in Ashburn, Va. As one of the AWS customers GPU Science is vulnerable to Hurricane Sandy too. We hosted exactly at us-east-1 region. Please keep your fingers crossed if we go offline tonight:-)