[LINK] Supercomputing for everyone

[Rachel Polanskis]

On 19/09/2012, at 10:20, Paul Brooks <pbrooks-link at layer10.com.au> wrote:

> 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 :-)
> 


A Cray might not be enough....

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