[LINK] Supercomputing for everyone

[Peter Bowditch]

I immediately hopped into the supercomputer cloud to analyse a serious 
problem in my SME. I wanted to find the relationship between temperature 
gradients, heat conductivity in materials, water temperature, air 
pressure, permeability of specific forms of paper, solubility of certain 
organic compounds and turbulence to find out how hot the water should be 
to make tea.

I'm now using a semantic and language analysis model to interpret the 
cryptic answer: "When the light goes out on the jug".

> 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.
> ---
> 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_wi
> l
> > 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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