[LINK] Supercomputing for everyone

[Paul Brooks]

On 19/09/2012 9:59 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> 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. 

And lets be honest - who amongst us, at some stage, hasn't wished to 'rent a Cray for
a day' when the old desktop is churning away taking hours to work through some problem
- month end accounts processing, cleaning and re-sorting the stock-take database, or a
BOINC climate model thats taking waaaay too long :-)

Paul.