Amazon Web Services Spotlights HPC Options

August 12, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from HPC.  Author: Tiffany Trader.

Despite high initial interest, HPC in the cloud never achieved significant adoption levels, mainly being relegated to low-hanging “pleasingly parallel” fruit and testing or experimental use, however, there are signs of growth on the horizon, according to HPC analysts.

 
“As public clouds acquire stronger HPC capabilities and perform better on a larger set of HPC workloads, they will be able to take on more types of HPC jobs,” noted one IDC study. “In summary, IDC foresees public clouds, and especially custom public clouds, supporting an increasing proportion of the aggregate HPC workload as these cloud facilities grow more capable and mature.”…

 
In a recent report, analyst firm Intersect360 referred to cloud/utility computing as “the growth rate leader in HPC market” with an expected 14.1 percent CAGR delivered primarily from increased academia and pharmaceutical company adoption. But given that HPC spending on cloud has hovered around 3 percent for several years now (1 percent for public cloud), a 14 percent growth rate is not going to move the needle significantly…

Read more from the source @ http://www.hpcwire.com/2015/08/11/amazon-web-services-spotlights-hpc-options/