Todd R. Weiss | Mon, August 09, 2010 | CIO.com
Computerworld — An economy that continues to stagnate could prove a boon to an increasing number of providers of on-demand supercomputing capacity.
Big Guns for Hire: Supercomputing-in-the-Cloud
The market for such services has so far grown slowly, said Charles King, an analyst at Pund-IT Inc. “But a weak, rocky economy makes on-demand services a lot more affordable than purchasing and maintaining a dedicated supercomputing cluster,” he added.
Dan Olds, an analyst at Gabriel Consulting Group Inc., said on-demand supercomputer services can prove particularly useful to smaller businesses that need powerful processing but can’t afford to buy high-performance computing systems.
More than 25 such businesses nationwide have directly participated in the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s (OSC) Blue Collar Computing initiative, which sells supercomputing services to companies that have never used such high-end hardware. More than 250 additional companies have also used the services by accessing them through OSC partners, like the Edison Welding Institute (EWI), said Ashok Krishnamurthy, interim co-director of the Columbus, Ohio-based center.
Computerworld — An economy that continues to stagnate could prove a boon to an increasing number of providers of on-demand supercomputing capacity.
Big Guns for Hire: Supercomputing-in-the-Cloud
The market for such services has so far grown slowly, said Charles King, an analyst at Pund-IT Inc. “But a weak, rocky economy makes on-demand services a lot more affordable than purchasing and maintaining a dedicated supercomputing cluster,” he added.
Dan Olds, an analyst at Gabriel Consulting Group Inc., said on-demand supercomputer services can prove particularly useful to smaller businesses that need powerful processing but can’t afford to buy high-performance computing systems.
More than 25 such businesses nationwide have directly participated in the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s (OSC) Blue Collar Computing initiative, which sells supercomputing services to companies that have never used such high-end hardware. More than 250 additional companies have also used the services by accessing them through OSC partners, like the Edison Welding Institute (EWI), said Ashok Krishnamurthy, interim co-director of the Columbus, Ohio-based center.