Cray: Cloud forecast bleak as supercomputing storm closes in

Grazed from CBROnline.  Author: James Nunns.

Cloud has a significant role to play in business; Nyberg doesn’t question this, but he believes that it has its shortcomings.  "What a lot of companies are finding is that once you get above a certain utilisation rate, it’s actually cheaper to own the machine yourself."

Believing that almost all of Cray’s large machines in industry, and to some degree in research and academia, could be described as private cloud resources, he says: "Once you reach a certain utilisation level, those things flip over and you’re starting to hear that more and as the cloud market matures a lot of organisations start moving over towards it and experimenting and discovering exactly that."…


What is driving usage and acquisition of supercomputers or High Performance Computing in general is the return on investment.  "They are able to do things with these machines that they couldn’t do with anything else, including cloud…

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