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[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

IBM chief: Supercomputing to SMEs will be huge Cloud market in the future

By Derek du Preez (Computerworld UK) 17th September, 2012
<http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/436635/ibm_chief_supercomputing_smes_wil
l_huge_cloud_market_future/?fp=4&fpid=40001>


Tikiri Wanduragala, a senior systems consultant at IBM, has said that the 
next big thing to happen in the Cloud computing market will be the 
availability of supercomputing applications to small and medium sized 
businesses.

Wanduragala said it will change the process of manufacturing for mid-
sized companies.

"One of the biggest things in the future of cloud computing will be the 
ability to get supercomputing to mid-sized businesses." 

"For example, fluid dynamics was only in the realm of the aerospace 
industry and big car companies," he said.

"Now that software is available on general purpose systems, so SMEs can 
now use it for modelling."

Fluid dynamic systems allow companies to measure the flow of liquids and 
gases in motion, and have largely been used by the airline industry to 
calculate moments and forces on aircrafts.

"Making this available to SMEs will completely change the process of 
manufacturing. An SME won't have to build prototypes to see if they work, 
they can just model it," said Wanduragala.

"The benefit to companies of having access to this will mean that they 
can then change their response time to market and change their cost 
structure."

"It has huge implications. It's those applications that were only 
available on big clusters; you will begin to see them on smaller arrays 
and that's when you will see supercomputing in cloud coming in very 
fast." he added.

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Stephen