The next revolution in cloud computing
January 30, 2013
Grazed from CNN Fortune. Author: Shelley DuBois.
Remember the Titan? No, not the comeback football team. The supercomputer that generated headlines last November for ranking as the world’s fastest. Titan can crunch so many calculations, it has the equivalent processing power of 500,000 laptops.
All that computing might is for naught without software capable of managing it. Software is a major—if often unsung—factor in the future of high-power computing. It will matter increasingly to businesses of all kinds as more and more products and services move into the cloud. "The line between high performance computing and cloud is blurring," says Rob Clyde, CEO of Adaptive Computing, a company that builds software to increase efficiency in supercomputers and cloud-based servers. Today, Adaptive revealed it developed the software that boosted Titan’s efficiency from 70% to about 95%. The software used to make Titan tick is similar, Clyde says, to software that optimizes the cloud…
That matters because as computing power gets more and more robust, the biggest challenge will switch from increasing raw processing brawn to optimizing the systems that we have. "We’re moving to a world where computing is almost sort of indistinguishable from being infinite," says Aaron Levie, CEO of cloud storage company Box. "The tools to manage that computing are becoming the next limiter." Box, Levie says, devotes dozens of employees who spend their days thinking about that single problem…
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