Taking supercomputers to the cloud

Grazed from FierceEnterpriseCommunications: Author: David Weldon.

With virtually every type of computing service going to the cloud, it is only logical that supercomputing should as well.  The concept was recently explored in an article entitled "Meeting Demand" in Scientific Computing World, and it makes great sense for two important reasons: cost and accessibility.

There is no secret to the fact that there is a supercomputer arms race going on. Every month we read about the latest and greatest supercomputer going online somewhere around the world, and where the new machine falls on the Top500 list (the list of the world’s top supercomputers, which is updated twice annually)…

These massive machines cost in the millions of dollars to construct and maintain (it is no accident that they are generally housed at universities or government agencies). The offering of supercomputer time via the could (similar to an SaaS model) would have the potential of reducing computing time cost for users…

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