Cloud HPC Firm Dares Scientists to Ask Big Questions
August 20, 2013
Grazed from PCWire. Author: Alex Woodie.
Cloud-based supercomputing is, theoretically, a great idea, but the trend has not taken off as some in the HPC field believed it would. That isn’t stopping the folks at Cycle Computing, who say its Amazon-based supercomputers are not only helping scientists and researchers get real work done, but freeing their brains to ask the really big questions.
Scientific creativity is being hamstrung by the finite resources of traditional fixed-size supercomputing infrastructures, Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe said in a recent video. While all kinds of advances are being made in the HPC arena–particularly on the software side–all too often, scientists and researchers can’t adequately explore their ideas or ask the big questions due to a sheer lack of HPC capacity…
"We end up with an innovation bottleneck with today’s fixed-sized clusters," Stowe said in the video. "We get into a long term habit [where] many researchers and engineers are essentially forced to subtlety confine the questions they ask to the 256 cores of infrastructure that they were able to afford last year…
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