[LINK] Supercomputing for everyone

[Jan Whitaker]

At 01:21 AM 19/09/2012, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> > It looks to me like yet another cloud solution looking for a problem.
>
>Take your point Bernard. Mind you, thinking about it, being cloud-based,
>data will be in/of 'known' formats, so, if our many cloud-providers work
>hard regards their interface & modules (eg a wind-tunnel module) whereby
>one simply plugs-in data, and plays what-if, one can see it being indeed
>a valuable and hither-to unavailable SME design and development resource.

I didn't give this much thought when posted, but what Stephen is 
pointing out could also be extended like this. If we are graduating 
people with super-computer training and access in universities, it 
would be great for start-up businesses challenged by access to 
capital to gain access to these sorts of resources. It may not be a 
huge number in the early days and maybe not optimally, but as large 
computing power networks for engineering problems become available, 
people will figure out ways to use them. In a way it's a 'open it up 
and they will come' approach.

Jan



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