[LINK] Supercomputing for everyone

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmmm ... I agree with Bernard here ... a solution in search of a problem.

On the mechanics of it - shades of the old Telnet! (Haven't used that sucker in ages, but it was a cool way of getting more grunt applied to whatever software and data you wanted to process ... before there was a 'cloud'.)

Strange how many of the old apps, 'technologies' and protocols make a re-appearance under new names and marketing devices in the current environment (e.g Twitter/blogs ... and NNTP) and are treated as the 'next big thing'. Career-wise, the smart place to be with respect to the 'new Internet' is in marketing rather than research.
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On 18/09/2012, at 9:47 PM, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> 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.
> 
> --
> 
> Cheers,
> Stephen
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